Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rockingham Demesne (boyle By., Rockingham.ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rockingham Demesne (boyle By., Rockingham.ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- RO006-184----
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a poem addressed to Tomaltach-an-einig (KM 1421-58) the poet speaks of a multitude of people climbing a hill beside the castle to a place of assembly (Mac Dermot 1996, 103). This is probably Longford Hill overlooking (RO006-202----). J. O'Donovan in the 1830s (O'Flannagan vol. 1, 117-8), describing a division of Rockingham Demesne, says that the AFM call it Longfort Mac Diarmada. He does not give the reference, and I could not find it in AFM.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
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.
Mac Dermot, D. 1996 Mac Dermot of Moylurg: the story of a Connacht family. Manorhamilton. Drumlin.