Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Aghafad, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghafad
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71434, -7.79864
- SMR number
- LF013-034----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Within the SE quadrant of an ecclesiastical enclosure (LF013-034001-). A report in 1975 (SMR file) noted that a series of low banks of earth and stone, rectangular in plan and orientated on an E-W axis, possibly marked the site of a church. A smaller square structure, defined by an earthen bank, extended to the N from it. A low earthen bank running to the E off the NE corner of this structure was possibly a subdividing bank associated with the ecclesiastical enclosure. None of these features are visible at ground level. A cross-inscribed pillar (LF013-034003-) is associated.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 4 June 2013
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 3/1979).
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.