Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Aughrim, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aughrim
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.86446, -8.10881
- SMR number
- RO017-085----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 level landscape at the S-facing foot of a drumlin with a W-E stream c. 100m to the S and Lough Nahincha c. 380m to the E. Rectangular grass-covered area (dims 43.5m E-W; 33m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.4m-0.6m; ext. H 0.4-0.6m) at E, a flat-bottomed moat (Wth of top 6.6m; Wth of base 5.5m; D 0.4-0.7m) at W, and a scarp (H 1m) and outer band of wet ground (Wth 6.5m) at S, but the perimeter is incorporated into an E-W field boundary and hedge at N. Church (RO017-084001-) is c. 200m to the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 29th September, 2010
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.