What is recorded here

Aughrim is a small Galway town where a forgotten castle, a lost priory and a busy road junction still share the same land. That is enough to make the place interesting: power, worship and movement all touched it before the modern village took the lead. The missing details do not weaken it; they invite imagination.

At a route centre in undulating farm and bogland. Knox (1901b, 370) states that, 'it appears … there was a castle at Aughrim with some settlers about it' in the early 14th C, citing as his source 'a paper of 1324'. Though the site of a castle (GA087-055----) is known on NE outskirts of the modern village, the exact location or character of this settlement is uncertain (Holland 1988, 81). The only other possible settlement indicators are the site of a priory (GA087-067----), 195m SE of the castle, and an unclassified ecclesiastical building (GA087-053001-), 375m to SW, beside the RC church. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 16 August 2010

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