Aughrim, County Cavan

Aughrim is a townland in the Parish of Tomregan, Barony of Tullyhaw, County Cavan, Ireland.

The Tithe Applotment Books for 1827 list the following tithepayers in the townland- Donohoe, Francis, Prior, Reilly, Cusker, Heavey, Clerk, Drum.

[11][12][13] Griffith's Valuation of 1857 lists the landlord of the townland as the Reverend Henry James Erskine and the tenants as Drum, Reilly, Prior, O’Donnell, Donohoe, McTeague and Heavy.

[14] In the Dúchas School's Collection at [15] a story by Mr J. McCabe in 1938 relates a fairytale that occurred in Aughrim.

[20] The only historic site in the townland was a prehistoric wedge tomb but this was excavated in 1992 and moved to the grounds of the Slieve Russell hotel in Cranaghan townland due to quarrying operations, (Site number 7, page 2, Aughrim townland, in "Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan", Patrick O’Donovan, 1995, where it is described as- Originally sited on Church Hill at the SE flank of Slieve Rushen (see CV010-005----), this tomb was excavated in 1992 in advance of quarrying operations and re-erected in the grounds of the Slieve Russell Hotel near Ballyconnell.

It consists of a ruined gallery, some 6m long, aligned WSW-ENE, set in a low, round cairn, retained by a kerb.

A tall stone at W, splits the entry to the gallery which seems to have been divided into a short portico and main chamber.

During the excavation both inhumed and cremated bone, in association with beaker and food-vessel pottery, were recovered from below the cairn and inside the gallery under a rough paving.