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Children's burial ground

Pollanalty West, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Pollanalty West, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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