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Church

Aghafad, County Longford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Aghafad, County Longford, 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
Aghafad
County
Longford
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.71434, -7.79864
SMR number
LF013-034----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

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

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

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