Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Pollower, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pollower
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.96373, -8.25122
- SMR number
- RO006-131006-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a shelf on the N-facing slope of a ridge with a working quarry to the N. Circular grass-covered cairn (diam. 7m; H 0.2-3m) S of the centre of cahsel (RO006-131003-) may be a hut-site, although there is a tradition of its use as a childrens burial ground.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.