placenamesAughrim
Eachroim
Excavation at Cooltymurraghy reveals an early layer of activity in Aughrim civil parish.
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
Burnt stone beneath the fields
At Cooltymurraghy, within Aughrim civil parish, archaeological work for the N6 road uncovered a spread of burnt stone and charcoal. Charcoal dating placed this activity in the Early Bronze Age. The excavators interpreted the deposit as a burnt mound, although no associated trough was found. A later water channel crossed the earlier spread. This small site preserves evidence of prehistoric activity in the parish’s countryside. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Galway
- Barony
- Clonmacnowen
- Barony
- Kilconnell
- Coordinates
- 53.29209, -8.35895
- Mapped area
- 29.41 km²
- Logainm ID
- 909 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Aughrim. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Cooltymurraghy, Co. Galway: Burnt mound / Fulacht fiadh site, E2448, June2009, summary · Mick Drumm and David Fallon; Eachtra Archaeological Projects
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.