Aughnasurn, or Aghnasurn is a
townland
A townland ( ga, baile fearainn; Ulster-Scots: ''toonlann'') is a small geographical division of land, historically and currently used in Ireland and in the Western Isles in Scotland, typically covering . The townland system is of Gaelic origi ...
in the civil parish of
Kilbryan, County Roscommon, Ireland.
Location
Aghnasurn is in the civil parish of
Kilbryan in the Barony of Boyne, County Roscommon.
Aghnasurn is in the Electoral Division of Kilbryan.
It has an area of .
Adjoining townlands are Annagh to the south, Bodorragha to the east, Derreenagan to the north and Largan to the west.
Historical
Holy Trinity Abbey
Holy Trinity Abbey is a former medieval Premonstratensian priory and National Monument located in Lough Key, Ireland.
Location
Holy Trinity Abbey is located on Trinity Island, an island of 0.9 ha (2.2 ac) in the southern part of Lough Key, facin ...
, founded around 1220 on an island in
Lough Key
Lough Key ( gle, Loch Cé) is a lake in Ireland. It is in the northwest of County Roscommon, northeast of the town of Boyle. The lough is believed to be named after a mythical figure named Cé.
Name
The name ''Lough Key'' comes from the Irish ' ...
and abandoned in 1606–07, owned property at Aghnasurn and
Estersnow
Estersnow more commonly Eastersnow and less commonly Easter-Snow is a civil parish in the ancient barony of Boyle in County Roscommon, Ireland.
It is 1295 hectare
The hectare (; SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a s ...
.
Around 1750–1780 the village was part of
Lord Crofton's Estate in County Roscommon.
A map of George Crofton's estate dated 24 April 1778 showed property at Aghnasurn.
Aughnasurn was listed in 1839 among the locations of
Irish loan societies associated with the Irish Reproductive Loan Fund Institution in the provinces of
Munster
Munster ( gle, an Mhumhain or ) is one of the provinces of Ireland, in the south of Ireland. In early Ireland, the Kingdom of Munster was one of the kingdoms of Gaelic Ireland ruled by a "king of over-kings" ( ga, rí ruirech). Following the ...
and
Connacht
Connacht ( ; ga, Connachta or ), is one of the provinces of Ireland, in the west of Ireland. Until the ninth century it consisted of several independent major Gaelic kingdoms (Uí Fiachrach, Uí Briúin, Uí Maine, Conmhaícne, and Delbhn ...
.
Other societies in Roscommon were at
Castlerea
Castlerea (; ) is the third largest town in County Roscommon, Ireland. It is located in the west of the county and had a population of 1,992 at the 2016 Census. Roughly translated from Irish, Castlerea is generally thought to mean 'brindled ca ...
,
Fuerty
Fuerty (historically ''Fewerty'', from ) is a townland and civil parish on the R366 regional road near the town of Roscommon in County Roscommon, Ireland. Fuerty is known for a ruined church and ancient graveyard on the site of a Celtic Christi ...
,
Elphin,
Ballymoe
Ballymoe (historically ''Bellamoe'', from ) is a village in County Galway, Ireland. Ballymoe is situated on the western side of the River Suck that separates counties Galway and Roscommon. The N60 national secondary road meets the R360 reg ...
and
Dunamon
Dunamon is a civil parish in County Galway, Ireland. The main land-owning family in the locality were the Caulfeilds.
See also
* Donamon Castle
Donamon, or more correctly, Dunamon Castle ( ga, Dún Iomáin) is one of the oldest inhabited buil ...
,
Knockadoe,
Knockgrohery,
Kiltoom
Kiltoom, also ''Kiltomb'' (), is a civil parish as well as an electoral division in County Roscommon, Ireland. There is also an eponymous townland in the parish. Kiltoom is located northwest of Athlone on the southwestern shore of Lough Ree.
T ...
,
Frenchpark
Frenchpark, historically known as Dungar (), is a village in County Roscommon, Ireland on the N5 national primary road. It was the home of Douglas Hyde, the first President of Ireland.
The nearby French Park Estate was until 1952 the ancestra ...
,
Cappagh,
Kilmore,
Athlone
Athlone (; ) is a town on the border of County Roscommon and County Westmeath, Ireland. It is located on the River Shannon near the southern shore of Lough Ree. It is the second most populous town in the Midlands Region with a population of ...
,
Strokestown
Strokestown ( ga, Béal na mBuillí), also known as Bellanamullia and Bellanamully, is a small town in County Roscommon, Ireland. It is one of the 27 designated Heritage Towns in Ireland. Located in the part of the country marketed for Desti ...
,
Mount-Talbot and
Aughram.
A report from the Reverend Dominick Noon on the Parishes of
Aughana and Aughnasurn was read in a British parliamentary debate on 23 November 1848.
He stated that in the parish of Aughana 67 had died of fever and 137 of famine. 230 had emigrated and 862 were in a state of starvation.
In the village of Aughnasurn 76 had died of famine since October.
An 1845 history of Ireland said that Lord Lorton was the proprietor of the entire parish of Kill-bryan apart from Kilteeshan.
The townland of Aghnasurn had a meal, flour, and tuck mill.
Griffith's Valuation
Griffith's Valuation was a boundary and land valuation survey of Ireland completed in 1868.
Griffith's background
Richard John Griffith started to value land in Scotland, where he spent two years in 1806-1807 valuing terrain through the examinati ...
published in 1858 lists eight households in Aghnasurn: Frazer, Dolan, Mcdermott, Fallon, Mcdermottroe, Cassidy, Frazer and Haley.
The 1911 Census had 21 people in the townland: Dolan (3), Cassidy (4), MacDermott (4), O'Hara (1), Fallon (7) and McDermottroe (2).
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Townlands of County Roscommon