Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement deserted - medieval
Rockingham Demesne (boyle By., Rockingham.ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rockingham Demesne (boyle By., Rockingham.ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- RO006-182----
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The National Monuments Service's description
There is a single reference to the commencement of a market town by Cormac Mac Tomaltach (KM 1218-44) in 1231 (ALC vol. 1, 309) at Port na Cargi. J. O'Donovan in the 1830s (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 117) thinks it is on the S shore of Lough Key, opposite the Rock of Lough Key (RO006-046----) where Rockingham House was later built. He records that the older local people refered to Rockingham as Port na Carraige. Mac Dermot (1996, 106) follows this belief.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
ALC - The Annals of Lough Cé: a chronicle of Irish affairs, 1014-1690, ed. W.M. Hennessy (2 vols., London, 1871; reflex facsimile, Irish Manuscripts Commission, Dublin, 1939)
Mac Dermot, D. 1996 Mac Dermot of Moylurg: the story of a Connacht family. Manorhamilton. Drumlin.
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1931 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Roscommon collected during the progress of the
Ordnance Survey in 1837. Bray.