Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Taghboy, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Taghboy
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.49778, -8.24755
- SMR number
- RO044-079002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The parish church of Taghboy (RO044-079001-) is at the N edge of a D-shaped graveyard (dims c. 50m E-W; c. 30m N-S) with the straight side at N defined by masonry walls, which are on the remains of an earthen bank E-S. A shallow fosse (Wth of top 4-12m; D 0.2-0.9m) can be traced NE-S on the E side of a NNE-SSW public road, while traces of the bank can be detected W-NW, creating an ecclesiastical enclosure (RO044-079004-). the graveyard has been extended to the S (dims c. 75m NNE-SSW; c. 45m WNW-ESE).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.