Taghmaconnell is a small parish in south Roscommon, rural and quiet. The name itself is Irish—Teach Mó-Chonnaill, the house or church of Saint Connall—suggesting the place grew around a small religious foundation, as many Irish parishes did.
The church that gave the place its name is long ruined, or rebuilt so many times it has lost the memory of what it was. The village exists now without grand claims, serving the local farms and people who have nowhere else to be.
South Roscommon, inland from the River Suck. Small roads through agricultural country.