What is recorded here
Pollardstown holds a buried jar waiting for rain or memory to reveal it. The railway cut through Kildare soil for gravel, breaking open an old chamber nobody had mapped. Inside lay sherds of an encrusted urn, not gold or weapons, but the remains of a vessel that once held someone important enough to protect. The train company took stones for tracks while history dropped its own weight into the pit.
In 1903, sherds of an encrusted urn were recovered from a possible cist during gravel extraction at a large pit used by the Great Southern and Western Railway Co. (O'Grady 1903-5, 313; Waddell 1970, 120).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 17 April 2012
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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