Ecclesiastical enclosure

The National Monuments Service's description

Lomán of Lough Owel (Lough Uair) was the son of Oireannan and was associated with a church (WM012-167----) on Church Island (Inis Mor) and with a church at Portloman (Teach/Port Lomáin) also possibly known as Teach Mic Luim (Ó Riain 1992, 401-02). According to Ó Riain (1992, 402) Lomán's church stood on the ancient roadway known as the Slighe Asail. According to local tradition a sacred song of Colum Cille called the Amhra was sung on a route or station performed between the church and the cross (WM011-145003-) and the penitential station Leac Lomán (WM011-142----) located 800m to SW (ibid.). His feastday fell on the 7th of February or possibly on the 3rd of February (ibid.).
Possible ecclesiastical enclosure identified by Swan (1988, 10) who recorded that there was evidence of a possible enclosure in the segmental form of the boundary wall of Portloman graveyard (WM011-145004-).

Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 18 August 2015

References

Ó Riain, P. 2011 A dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin. Four Courts Press.

Swan, D.L. 1988 The Early Christian ecclesiastical sites of County Westmeath. In J. Bradley (ed.), Settlement and society in Medieval Ireland: studies presented to F.X. Martin O.S.A., 1-31. Kilkenny. Boethius Press.