The history of Ahascragh
St Cuan in 788, the battle of 1307, the churches of 1800 and 1815, the television parish. 5 moments, in order.
- 788
St Cuan
The Annals of the Four Masters record the death of the village's patron; his well lies to the north-east. Ringforts, souterrains and holy wells fill the townlands of Weston and Ahascragh East and West.
- 1307
The battle of Ahascragh
English forces met the O'Kelly chieftains here, the annals say; Clonbrock Castle nearby, a tower house of the late fifteenth century, is tied by tradition to the O'Kellys.
- About 1800 and 1815
Two churches
The Church of Ireland church dates from about 1800 and the Catholic church from about 1815; an earlier church of St Cuan may have stood in the village before the Normans.
- 1990s
Monica Loolly
Don't Feed the Gondolas on RTÉ closed each show with a send-up of village Ireland set in Ahascragh, with the invented head of the parish committee.
- 2022
186 people
The census count for a village 11 km north-west of Ballinasloe on the R358.
Where this comes from
Every paragraph above summarises a statement in Wikipedia, "Ahascragh", licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, as it read on 2026-09-19. Follow it for the footnotes. Nothing has been added from memory.