Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Quinspool South, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Quinspool South
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Quinspool Br.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Quinspool Br. (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.68781, -8.63102
- SMR number
- CL063-007----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated 1.5km N of Limerick City over a stream flowing W to E into the River Shannon. A bridge built by the Mayor of Limerick in 1635. An inscribed limestone slab (1.21m x 0.61m) is built into the W parapet at ground level. The inscription, in low relief, is in capital letters and reads, ‘HUNC PONTEM AC UIAM STRATAM FIERI FECIT PETRUS CREAGH FILIUS ANDREAE MAIOR CIVITATIS LIMERICENSIS SUMPTIBUS EIUSDEM CIVITATIS ANNO DNI 1635’ which translates ‘Peter Creagh, sone of Andrew [Creagh], Mayor of Limerick, had this bridge and street made at the expense of the city of Limerick, the year of the Lord 1635’. (Rynne 1977, 69-71 and Plate V)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 15 May 2017
References
Rynne, E. 1977 Inscribed slab (1635) in Quinspool Bridge. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 19, 69-71.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.