Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Clonroad More,lifford, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonroad More,lifford
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.84819, -8.97256
- SMR number
- CL033-085003-
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
One of two stone bridges depicted on a 17th-century drawing by Thomas Dineley (1681) across the river Fergus immediately N of Clonroad Castle (CL033-084001-). In the drawing, this more westerly bridge linked the arched entrance to the bawn with the N side of the river. It was built at an existing fording point, facilitated by a shelf of flat limestone outcrop that provided a firm footing. This still exists under the modern bridge. (Ó Dálaigh 1987, 18; 2012, 1, 15)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 23 April 2014
References
Ó Dálaigh, B. 2012 Irish Historic Towns Atlas, No. 25. Ennis. Royal Irish Academy. Dublin.
Ó Dálaigh, B.. 1987 History of an O'Brien stronghold: Clonroad c. 1210-1626. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 29, 16-31.
Nearby in the register
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.