Settlement cluster

The National Monuments Service's description

On a W-facing slope of a low drumlin. The village of Aughmore existed before the Great Famine (1845-9) but the tenants were evicted in 1847 after a bitter rent strike when the village was levelled (Coyle 1994, 27-36). Geophysical testing of an area of c. 1 ha located c. 70m NE of the rath (RO024-004001-) identified a sunken roadway (RO024-004003-) approaching the rath from the NE. Excavation recovered over 9000 pottery artefacts dating from 1800 to 1848 at the site of a house, identified through records as the Neary house, and an adjacent cobbled yard (Orser 1999, 2000; 2002; 2003; Hull and Orser 2004; Hull 2006).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

Orser, C.E. 1999 Aughamore village, Ballykilcline. 19th century tenant village. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1998: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 177-8. Bray. Wordwell.

Orser, C.E. 2000a Aughamore village, Ballykilcline. Early 19th century tenant village. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 266-7. Bray. Wordwell.

Hull, K. 2006 History underground. In C.E. Orster, Unearthing hidden Ireland. Wordwell, Bray.

Hull, K. L. and Orser, E. 2004 Ballykilcline: early 19th century tenant village. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 451-2, No. 1587. Bray. Wordwell.

Orser, C.E. 2003 Ballykilcline: early 19th-century farming village. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 353, No. 1109. Bray. Wordwell.

Orser, C.E. 2002 Ballykilckine: early 19th-century tenant village. In I. Bennet (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 288-9, No. 841. Bray. Wordwell.