Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Monreagh, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monreagh
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lughid Br.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lughid Br. (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.97168, -8.89389
- SMR number
- CL018-006001-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In an E-W valley. A single-arched bridge (span 6m) with the arch springing 1.4m over the bed of a stream. The voussoirs are undressed and the arch may have been repointed. The parapet has some cut limestone. Although there are no indications that this bridge is medieval it is cited in the OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1928, vol. 1, 44) as the Bridge of Lochaid and the placename was apparently mentioned in the Annals of the Four Masters in the year 1564.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 13 June 2016
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1928 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Wicklow collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Bray.
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