What is recorded here

Medieval Lea rose as a royal staging post and fell back into the difficult ground, leaving only linear earthworks that may be town walls or mere drainage ditches. For a moment it housed hundreds of soldiers, horses and camp followers before the O'Connors burned it and the manor became waste. The ash tree remembered longer than the houses did: people danced around it on Whit-Monday, then storm and decay took even that marker. What remains is a field where remembering must keep inventing its own shape.

Unlocated village within the townland of Aughans mentioned in the OS Letters by John O'Donovan (1933, vol. 2, p. 42). O'Doyne manuscript dated 9th May 1608, mentions '20 acres of arable land and five acres of pasture in the hamlets and fields of Achanine' (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, p. 42). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

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