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Foxburrow

The small Westmeath townland preserves traces of an earthwork beside Taghmon.

Recorded locationFoxburrow53.60128° N · 7.25738° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.

Recorded forms

  • Foxburrow · English · main form

Place & story

An earthwork on historic mapping

The Archaeological Survey of Ireland records a ringfort in Foxburrow. Caimin O’Brien’s account describes a large oval area, about 65 metres across, marked by a scarp on the historic 25-inch Ordnance Survey map. Its degraded outline remained visible in aerial imagery taken between 2011 and 2013. [2]

One empty house

The 1911 census lists one house in Foxburrow, uninhabited, with no population entered. The earlier returns give five inhabitants in 1891 and four in 1901, with one house in each year. Its area was 63 acres, three roods and 31 perches. It lay in Taghmon parish and electoral division, Corkaree barony, Multyfarnham dispensary district and Mullingar Poor Law Union. [3]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Westmeath
Barony
Corkaree
Civil parish
Taghmon
Coordinates
53.60128, -7.25738
Mapped area
0.26 km²
Logainm ID
52089 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

1911 census

No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.

1926 census

No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Foxburrow. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Archaeological Survey of Ireland: WM012-075----, uploaded 16 August 2023 · Caimin O’Brien, Archaeological Survey of Ireland, National Monuments Service
  3. Census of Ireland 1911: County Westmeath, Table VII, printed page 40 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by the Athlone Printing Works Company, 1912
  4. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2007-12-10. How this page was prepared.