Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Aghafad, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghafad
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.71434, -7.79864
- SMR number
- LF013-034001-
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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
On a NE-facing slope in pasture. Described in 1975 (SMR file) as a slightly raised oval platform (c. 64m E-W; c. 52m N-S) defined by a low bank of earth and stone. The original entrance may have been at NE. A possible church (LF013-034----) was evident in the SE quadrant of the interior as well as a cross-inscribed pillar (LF013-034003-) and an internal subdividing bank. The enclosure is defined by a scarp (H 0.25-0.8m). No visible surface trace of the internal bank survives.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, 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
- Churchunder 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.