Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Aughrim, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aughrim
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.86605, -8.11082
- SMR number
- RO017-084004-
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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
On a low drumlin overlooking Lough Nahircha c. 500m to the ESE. An early ecclesiastical site (RO017-084001-) identified as Echdruim mac nAedha which was burnt in 790 and 1398 (AU). It is within traces of an outer enclosure (diam. c. 90m) defined by a scarp (H 0.2m at E to 0.6m at S) NE-S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
AU (1983) - The Annals of Ulster to 1311, ed. S. Mac Airt and G. Mac Niocaill (Dublin 1983)
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.