People and Places of Galway

Standard Name:

Pollatulwagh

Irish Form of Name:

Poll a Tulmhach

Translation:

hole of the flood

Civil Parish:

Omey
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Other Forms of the Name with authority source (if provided) in italics:

Pollatulwagh
Poll a Tulmhach
Poll a Tulbhach
Poulatulvagh
Poulatlooagh Inhabitants

Description:

This is a cove extending about 200 feet into the land between two solid rocks about 40 feet high ad 13 feet wide at the entrance, narrowing to four feet into which the tide flows at high water. On the centre is a bridge by nature and bearing grass. It is abut 14 yards long.

Situation:

Situated in the N.W. end of Aughrusbeg and S.W. of Illaunnageeragh.

Translation according to P. W. Joyce:

Poll or Poul, a hole in the ground or river or bog, an excavation, a cavern : sometimes made Pollach, like smolach, from Smol: see vol. ii. p. 5.

What is a townland?:

A townland is one of the smallest land divisions in Ireland. They range in size from a few acres to thousands of acres. Many are Gaelic in origin, but some came into existence after the Norman invasion of 1169

Townland:

Pollatulwagh is in Aughrusbeg townland.

Original OS maps at the Ordnance Survey of Ireland website.
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Pollatulwagh

Information from the National Monuments Service.
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Archaeological map from the National Monuments Service

Information about Pollatulwagh

Information from O'Donovan's Field Name Books

Information From Joyce's Place Names

Townland Information

Information From Maps