The history of Aughrim
Bishops from 500, the battle of 1691, MacNeven, the church of 1819. 6 moments, in order.
- About 500
Connell of Aughrim
The bishop and founder; Flann Aighle in 736, Maelimarchair in 746, the abbot Rechtabhra in 782 and Maelduin, bishop and erenagh, in 809 followed him.
- About 600
Aodh mac Aidmhire
The dynast is among the village's recorded names.
- 12 July 1691
The battle
The Marquis de St Ruth prepared the Irish Catholic Jacobite troops here for the battle of the Williamite war. Two ringforts in Attidermot to the south are a national monument.
- 1798
MacNeven
William James MacNeven, the republican negotiator of the rising, was born here.
- 1819
Holy Trinity
The cruciform Church of Ireland church was consecrated on Trinity Sunday and named for it; Henry Martin and then John Crampton were its rectors for its first seventy years.
- 2011
595 people
The census count for the division, on the R446 that was the N6 between Loughrea and Ballinasloe. The Sunflowers Chernobyl Appeal works from the village.
Where this comes from
Every paragraph above summarises a statement in Wikipedia, "Aughrim, County Galway", licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, as it read on 2026-09-19. Follow it for the footnotes. Nothing has been added from memory.