Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Ballyknockan (idrone West By.),leighlinbridge, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyknockan (idrone West By.),leighlinbridge
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Marked Bridge
- Latest-edition OS map
- Marked Leighlin Bridge
- Coordinates
- 52.73626, -6.97826
- SMR number
- CW012-070002-
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
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Built in 1320 by Maurice Jakis and defended by tower house (CW012-070003-). According to Lewis (1837, Vol II, 251), the then bridge had nine arches and may have been, or incorporated parts of, the medieval one. Present bridge is modern. (Bradley 1989, 35)
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Carmelite friarsunder 1 mi
- Flat cemeteryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.