Aughrim

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aughrim, from 82 m² to 230,989 m² (23.1 ha, 57.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Aughrim in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Aughrim in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Aughrim.

Recorded monuments

• RO017-084001 Church
  Description

  This is an early ecclesiastical site identified as Echdruim mac nAedha which was burnt in 790 (AU vol. 1, 247) and 1398 (AU vol. 4, 41), and is listed as Ethdrum in the ecclesiastical taxation of Elphin in 1306 (Cal. doc. Ire., vol. 5, 224) as the parish church of Aughrim parish. Situated on a low drumlin overlooking Lough Nahircha (dims c. 1km E-W; c. 100-200m N-S), which is c. 500m to the ESE. A rectangular structure (int. dims 8.1m E-W; 4.4m N-S) with a doorway (Wth 1.1m) in the W gable but no other architectural features. The re-built walls (T 0.65m; H 2.5-3.2m) incorporate late medieval punch-dressed stones and a small cross-slab (RO017-084005-) (dims 0.3m x 0.2m), now built into the inner face of the E wall. This is Old Red Sandstone with an incised ringed cross and a radial inscription '..n gal..' in the spandrels (Herity et al. 1997, 114). The structure, which was known locally as Beech abbey (RO017-034003-) in 1837 (O'Flanagan 1931, 37), is within a rectangular graveyard (RO017-084002-) (dims 71m E-W; 35.5-38m N-S) containing 18th - 20th century headstones and which is defined by masonry walls. This is within traces of an outer ecclesiastical enclosure (RO017-084004-) (diam. c. 90m) defined by a scarp (H 0.2m at E to 0.6m at S) NE-S. Moated site (R017-085----) is c. 200m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-084002 Graveyard
  Description

  On a low drumlin overlooking Lough Nahircha c. 500m to the ESE. This is a rectangular graveyard (int. dims 71m E-W; 35.5m-38m N-S) enclosed by masonry walls and containing 18th to 20th century headstones with the church (RO017-084001-) in the interior. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-084004 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  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

• RO017-084005 Cross-slab
  Description

  On a low drumlin overlooking Lough Nahircha c. 500m to ESE. An early Christian foundation (RO017-084001-) (burned in 790 AD) still in use in the medieval period (burned again in 1398 AD). A fragment of a cross inscribed grave slab is mounted on the inner face of the reconstructed E gable of the church. This is Old Red Sandstone (dims. 0.3m x 0.2m) with a ringed cross and a radial inscription in the spandrels '.N GAL.' and dating between 8th C and 10th C (Herity et al. 1997, 114). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-085 Moated site
  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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aughrim.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aughrim.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Aughrim with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Aughrim · Eachroim

Area

1,399,865 m² (139.99 ha, 345.91 acres)

Civil parish

Aughrim, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Aughrim East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Aughrim East electoral division: 242 people in 88 households; 87% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghamore, Ardlougher, Carrigeenduff, Carrownaglearagh, Coolmeen, Rockville, Rodeen

Placenames

Aughrim on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.