Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Tinnahinch, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tinnahinch
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.53763, -6.95811
- SMR number
- CW024-029----
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University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
16th-century wooden bridge which traversed the River Barrow connecting the townlands of Brandondale on the west side of the river to Tinnahinch on the eastern bank, c. 330m SW and downstream of the present 18th-century stone bridge at Graiguenamanagh. According to O'Leary (1892, 302), 'Tinnehinch Castle [CW024-026----] also guarded a wooden bridge, the first across the river at this place. We find, in December of the year 1549, a project was sent to Government for making a bridge over the Barrow between "Duiske Abbey" [KK029-018001-] and the "Kavanaghs' Country." At the building of the present lock about seventy years ago some of the old oak piles of this bridge were taken up'. See KK029-042--- for the Co. Kilkenny portion of the bridge.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
References
O'Leary, P. 1892 Tinnehinch Castle. Miscellanea. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 22, 203-4.
Nearby in the register
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.