Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Pollagh (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pollagh (dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.17530, -8.92411
- SMR number
- GA103-162----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In undulating grassland. This children's burial ground consists of an unenclosed irregularly shaped area (10m NW-SE; 8.8m NE-SW) within which are several haphazardly placed set stones. On inspection the monument was densely overgrown and was being used as a dump for refuse. (McCaffrey 1952, 201, no. 109)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 3 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.