Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Gortnahown, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnahown
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29217, -8.74805
- SMR number
- GA084-080----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
This single-arched bridge (L 3.9m; Wth 2.47m; H 1.55m) straddles a small E-W flowing stream and it appears to have been built on the line of an old roadway leading into Athenry town (GA084-001----) to the N. It is of modern construction.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 4 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Memorial stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.