Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Togher, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Togher
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church
- Coordinates
- 53.77208, -7.34150
- SMR number
- WM001-055----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Described in 1980 as ‘the ruins of a small plain rectangular stone-built structure with a small 2-storey tower at the W end (long axis E-W). No features survive in the church itself – the walls survive to only c. 1.25m high and some red brick is visible in the N wall. There appears to have been a gallery at the W end with doorway from tower (upper floor). The tower has a pointed doorway in its S side and pointed windows in its 3 external walls & a doorway into the church in the W wall (W wall of church). The line of the roof of the church can be seen in the wall of the tower. There is a good deal of red brick visible around the openings. The top of the tower has low battlemented wall around it. This seems to be a late church probably late 18th / early 19th century in date. It is in a small rectangular enclosure outlined by a low stone wall and there are no burials. There is no sign of an earlier enclosure’ (SMR File 1980). Togher Castle (WM001-004----) located 650m to the W and bawn (WM001-003----) located 550m to the NE.
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 14 August 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.