Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Pollanalty West, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pollanalty West
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 53.68246, -8.78753
- SMR number
- RO031-001----
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
Towards the bottom of a gentle S-facing slope and known locally as Teampailín Mhuire. Rectangular grass-covered area (dims 25m ENE-WSW; 16m NNW-SSE) covered in stones. Many of the upright grave-markers are in N-S lines placed c. 1-1.5m apart, and some stones surround particular graves (dims c. 1m x 0.5m). The outline of a building that may be a church (RO031-001001-) (int. dims 12m ENE-WSW; 4.2m NNW-SSE) can be seen in the rise of walls (Wth 2.2-4m; H 0.1-0.3m), apart from the W where there is a slight quarry. One stone (dims 0.22m x 0.15m; H 0.3m) has two faces that may be chamfers, and a second stone (dims 0.25m x 0.12m; H 0.2m) appears to have punch dressing. The burial ground was enclosed with a wall in 2003.
See the attached image of some of the grave-markers.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Mound1 mi
- Earthwork1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrow2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.