What is recorded here

Pollagh in County Kilkenny is an enclosure so thin it may have never existed, born only from a hill name meaning rath site. O'Kelly and O'Sullivan wrote it into history, yet no line appeared on the 1839 or 1948 maps. Perhaps a ditch once cut the grass and faded before ink dried. Maybe the name itself built the wall.

According to O'Kelly (1969, 155) under the placename 'Pollagh, Pollach', he notes that, 'Cnoc na rátha, a rath site, is the name of Pollach hill and mentioned in O'Sullivan's Diary'. There is no enclosure indicated in Pollagh townland either on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map or on the 1948 revision of this map. The precise location of this possible enclosure within the townland is unknown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 11 May 2022

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