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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60521, -7.27119
- SMR number
- WM012-073----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · 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
Situated on low marshy ground. Ringfort (WM012-072---) 80m to W. This site has been badly disturbed and largely destroyed by quarrying. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 23.4m NNW-SSE) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank and a wide fosse. The low bank (H 0.25m) is fragmentary, while the external fosse (Wth 3.4m; D 0.5m) is visible only from S-SW-WSW and at NNW. The interior rises slightly towards the centre and has traces of cultivation ridges. Drains and water channels are visible outside the monument at N and E. Several quarry holes are visible in the interior.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 15 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.