Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Taghmon, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Taghmon
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 52.32104, -6.65336
- SMR number
- WX041-008010-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 a gentle S-facing slope. The site of St. Munna’s church (WX041-008003-) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims 37m N-S; 31m E-W) defined by masonry walls. Twelve granite grave-markers (Corlett 2010) in the graveyard have solid ringed heads, and are probably influenced in their design by the only physical remnant of St. Munna’s monastery in the base and head of a granite high cross (WX041-008002-) at the probable site of the medieval parish church (WX041-008016-) c. 120m to the N. Archaeological testing (97E0450) outside the graveyard to the NE failed to recovery any related material (Hurley 1998).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 20 March, 2013
References
Corlett, C. 2010 'The Taghmon Crosses, Co. Wexford'. In M. Davies, U. Mac Conville & G. Cooney (eds.), A grand gallimaufry collected in honour of Nick Maxwell, 237-42. Dublin. Wordwell.
Hurley, M. F. 1998 Taghmon. Adjacent to ecclesiastical enclosure. In I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 1997: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 195, No. 604. Bray, Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian, of Arrouaise nunsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.