Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Chapel
Taghmon, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Taghmon
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Chapel (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Chapel (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.59984, -7.24946
- SMR number
- WM012-082----
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 ESE facing slope of a low rise in grassland, surrounded by poorly drained land. The ground rises to the W and S of the site, and views are restricted. The grass covered wall footings of the S and E wall of the chapel are visible (approx. dims. 7m N-S x 8m E-W) standing in the W quadrant of a trapezoidal-shaped ecclesiastical enclosure (WM012-082001-). The wall footings of a small external rectangular annexe (approx. diam. 6m N-S; 4m E-W) are visible adjoining the W end of the chapel. There is an entrance gap (Wth 3m) mid-way along the S wall of the chapel, and the wall footings of two internal walls are also visible.
See attached plan 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
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.