Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Taghmon, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Taghmon
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.60347, -7.28286
- SMR number
- WM012-063----
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
Situated on SE facing slope of a high steep hill in grassland, with good views to the NE. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 27m NW-SE) enclosed by an earthen bank and external fosse. A quarry hole is visible in the fosse area from W-NW. There is an entrance gap (Wth 2.7m) and a causeway (Wth 2.9m) across the fosse at ESE. The interior slopes appreciable from NW-SE.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 15 February 2018
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.