Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Loughaun, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughaun
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.31087, -7.54415
- SMR number
- OF008-045002-
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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
Possible small enclosure or cashel that is indicated on the OS 6-inch map may be the remains of a small early-Christian ecclesiastical enclosure. According to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland files this site was inspected by Liam de Paor in 1977 and he described ' a roughly oval shaped enclosure marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a dotted line is the remains of a cashel wall an inner enclosure' (ASI file 1977). Possible cashel like enclosure may be the remains of an enclosure that predates or is contemporary with the medieval church (OF008-045001-) at Tihilly. The present remains consist of a low rise of ground indicates the existence of a levelled enclosure (approx. diam. 32m N-S; 47m E-W) that once surrounded the medieval church at Tihilly. Church was located in E quadrant of enclosure.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.