Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - medieval
Taghmaconnell, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Taghmaconnell
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.38915, -8.13417
- SMR number
- RO051-053009-
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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
On a rise in an undulating landscape. The base of a house (ext. dims. 9.95m E-W; 8.35m N-S; H c. 2m) is attached to the W end of the parish church of Taghmaconnell (RO051-053001-) and is probably coeveal it. The tower has a rebuilt entrance in the S wall with a stairs rising to the E, to the destroyed wall-walk of the church. The ground floor has a light in the W wall and a projecting tower (ext. dims 5m E-W; 1.05m N-S), probably for a garderobe chute, at the E end of the N wall. There are holes for corbels in the N and W walls.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.