Bridge

The National Monuments Service's description

The 1655-6 Down Survey map of the parish of Naul shows 'Paul [Naul] Bridge' crossing the River Elfin [Delvin] on the main route to the N from Swords through Rathbeale via Roganstown, the Naul and Dardistown to Drogheda. On this parish map the bridge is shown to the E of a watermill in Co. Meath in the area where Naul Park House stands today. The terrier of the Down Survey Map of the Parish of Naul recorded that 'ye. River Elfin on w[hi]ch Stands a Mill in Repaire, in the Towneland of the Naule & a Bridge over the Said River' (NLI Ms. 714). At present the River Delvin is crossed by a double-arched bridge which occupies the site of the earlier bridge. This has round segmental arches and dressing on the stonework.

See attached Down Survey Map of the Parish of Naul showing Naul Bridge, Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland.
See attached Down Survey Map of the Barony of Balrothery showing 'The Naule Bridg' and watermill on the 'River of Elfin' (Hib. Reg.)

See attached Rocque's 1760 Map of County Dublin the settlement of Naul (https://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/concern/works/mg74qp03f)

NLI MS 714 National Library of Ireland, The parish maps of the Down Survey for the county of Dublin, attested by William Petty in 1657, copied by Daniel O'Brien, 1786-1787.

Compiled by: Geraldine Stout

Revised by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of revised upload: 1 February 2023

References

Hibernia Regnum: A set of 214 barony maps of Ireland dating to the period AD 1655-59. The original parish maps have been lost but the Hibernia Regnum maps are preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (Goblet 1932, v-x). Photographic facsimiles of these maps were published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton in 1908.

Rocque, J. 1760 An Actual Survey of the County of Dublin, on the same Scale, as those of Middlesex, Oxford, Berks and Buckinghamshire. Available at http://sdublincoco.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=e0c5595b033341dea7661e248d2e9ee9// [Accessed 21 September 2016]