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A heritage day out in County Longford

Everything this site lists for County Longford in one place: 76 entries across holy wells, pattern days, monuments, castles and the coast. Each links to the record or page it comes from. More about County Longford →

On this site for County Longford
Holy wells 27Pattern days 1Round towers 0High crosses 2Ogham stones 0Mass rocks 2Sweathouses 1Megalithic tombs 9Crannógs 22Abbeys and friaries 9Castles 3Lighthouses 0Award beaches 0National parks 0
Holy wells · 27

From: Sites and Monuments Record (Republic); Wikidata for Northern Ireland. Holy wells page →

Pattern days · 1
  • Holy well, Toome · St Patrick's Day, 17 March · Toome (Granard By.) · “The record states that patterns are held here annually on St Patrick's Day.” · SMR LF006-025001 ↗

From: Sites and Monuments Record descriptions and Wikipedia. Pattern days page →

Round towers · none on our lists

From: Sites and Monuments Record. Round towers page →

High crosses · 2
  • Abbeyshrule · “Originally located in the burial ground c. 30m to the NE of the Cistercian abbey, this high cross has been moved to the sacristy of the RC church in the village of Abbeyshrule for safe-keeping (see LF023-129----).” · SMR LF023-113006- ↗ · map ↗
  • Drumanure · present location of a moved object · “Now in the sacristy of the R.C. church in the village of Abbeyshrule, this high cross was originally located in the burial ground c. 70m to the NE of the Cistercian abbey.” · SMR LF023-129---- ↗ · map ↗

From: Sites and Monuments Record. High crosses page →

Ogham stones · none on our lists

From: Sites and Monuments Record. Ogham stones page →

Mass rocks · 2
  • Derrydarragh · “This mass-rock consists of a roughly shaped, squared limestone boulder (max. H 0.65m; 1.15m NE-SW; 0.9m NW-SE).” · SMR LF025-001002- ↗ · map ↗
  • Formoyle (Farrell) · “According to Kenny (1995, 51), there is a mass-rock in the vicinity of the well.” · SMR LF021-020002- ↗

From: Sites and Monuments Record. Mass rocks page →

Sweathouses · 1
  • Lettergullion · “Not depicted on any ed. of the OS 6-inch maps. Ó Duigneáin described it as being situated at an elevation of 'some five hundred feet' and in 'a good state of preservation'” · SMR LF005-021---- ↗

From: Sites and Monuments Record. Sweathouses page →

Megalithic tombs · 9
  • Abbeyderg · “This tomb is very overgrown with hazel and thorn bushes.” · SMR LF018-065---- ↗ · map ↗
  • Aghnacliff · “A short chamber is aligned N-S.” · SMR LF006-017---- ↗ · map ↗
  • Aghnagarron · “Although not included by de Valera and Ó Nualláin (1972, 89) in their main list these three stones might be the last vestiges of a megalithic tomb. See linked documents with plan (LF011-004----_02) and details …” · SMR LF011-004---- ↗ · map ↗
  • Birrinagh · “A small chamber (L 1.5m) lacks sidestones.” · SMR LF003-015---- ↗ · map ↗
  • Cleenrah · “A chamber (L c. 2m) faces W.” · SMR LF006-004---- ↗ · map ↗
  • Clooneen (Beirne) · “A gallery (L c. 8.5m), aligned E-W, is divided by a septal-stone into a short portico to the W and a main chamber to the E.” · SMR LF008-037---- ↗ · map ↗
  • Cloonker · “On the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map this feature is shown some 60m to the SE of the position recorded on the 1914 ed. In 1837 O'Donovan recorded that there was then in this townland a 'giant's grave fifteen feet [c. …” · SMR LF018-070---- ↗ · map ↗
  • Dooroc,Corneddan · “This is a large, round cairn (diam. 18m; H c. 3m) on which there is an OS trigonometrical pillar.” · SMR LF005-017---- ↗ · map ↗
  • Melkagh · “A portal-tomb chamber stood on the main axis of a long cairn at or close to its SSW end.” · SMR LF005-007---- ↗ · map ↗

From: Sites and Monuments Record. Megalithic tombs page →

Crannógs · 22

From: Sites and Monuments Record. Crannógs page →

Abbeys and friaries · 9
  • Abbey Land · “Founded by Geoffrey O'Ferrall in the 15th century and dedicated to St John the Baptist.” · SMR LF015-062---- ↗ · map ↗
  • Abbeycartron · “Depicted on an early 17th-century map of Longford barony as a small rectangular church, named 'Longford Abbey', standing near the bank of the Camlin River (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.ii.24).” · SMR LF013-026001- ↗ · map ↗
  • Abbeyderg · “Founded shortly before 1199 by Gormghall Ó Cuinn (Ó Riain 2010, 41).” · SMR LF018-066001- ↗ · map ↗
  • Abbeylara · “Said to have been ‘founded by St Patrick, who appointed St Guasacht its first abbot: it was refounded for monks of the Cistercian order, and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, in 1205, by Lord Richard Tuit’, who was …” · SMR LF011-036001- ↗ · map ↗
  • Abbeyshrule · “Gwynn and Hadcock (1970, 125-6) note that the abbey ‘Flumen Dei’ was colonized in 1200 by the Cistercians from Mellifont, county Louth under the patronage of the O'Farrells of Annaly.” · SMR LF023-113---- ↗ · map ↗
  • Clonbroney · “The nunnery of 'Cluain Bronaich' is mentioned in the Tripartite Life of St Patrick and the deaths of a number of abbesses are recorded in the annals from 933 up until 1163, after which it drops into obscurity.” · SMR LF010-062001- ↗ · map ↗
  • Inchcleraun · “The largest building also known as the 'abbey church' stands in the ESE quadrant of the ecclesiastical enclosure or monastic cashel of Inchcleraun.” · SMR LF021-048004- ↗ · map ↗
  • Inchmore Island · “A monastery was founded here by St Colmcille and the early church was ‘Teampull Choluim Cille’” · SMR LF006-032002- ↗ · map ↗
  • Saints Island · “St Ciaran may have founded a monastery here before 542; the priory was built for the Augustinian canons c. 1259.” · SMR LF026-016002- ↗ · map ↗

From: Sites and Monuments Record. Abbeys and friaries page →

Castles · 3

From: Wikipedia's castle categories. Castles page →

Lighthouses · none on our lists

From: Wikipedia's list of lighthouses in Ireland. Lighthouses page →

Award beaches · none on our lists

From: Blue Flag and Green Coast awards. Award beaches page →

National parks · none on our lists

From: Wikipedia, National parks of Ireland. National parks page →

Before you go looking

Source: National Monuments Service, Archaeological Survey of Ireland, Sites and Monuments Record, open data via data.gov.ie ↗ (CC BY 4.0); every record links to the Historic Environment Viewer ↗. Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record (Department for Communities, Historic Environment Division), OpenDataNI ↗.

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