placenamesAughrim
Eachroim
Lewis recorded aristocratic burials in an old church and a different burial tradition on the Rockville estate.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Eachroim · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Aughrim · English · main form
Place & story
Two places of remembrance
In his 1837 account of Aughrim in County Roscommon, Samuel Lewis distinguished the parish church built in 1744 from the surviving ruins of an older church. He recorded that some Earls of Roscommon had been buried in those ruins. On the Rockville estate he also described a large hilltop fort with a central heap of stones. That feature carried a different kind of association: it was said to mark the burial of a native chief. Lewis supplied neither the chief’s name nor archaeological evidence for the tradition. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Aughrim. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Aughrim, County Roscommon: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.