Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Staigue, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Staigue
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 51.79384, -10.01853
- SMR number
- KE099-013002-
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
According to Hayward (1976, 117) 'at Castlecove we turned right at the Staigue Fort Hotel and traversed a rough humpy road for about three miles into the mountains'. According to local information this is the road that is still used to go from the main road up the valley to Staigue Fort. Hayward (ibid., 156) mentions a 'further section of the old road from Staigue, disused now for many a year'. Local information is that this old road passes over the hump-backed, stone-built bridge with two segmental arches and low parapet walls, about 1.5km S of Staigue Fort. This old road has been reused as part of 'The Kerry Way', which runs in a NE direction along the hillside from Staigue for c. 12 km to Sneem and then continues onwards to the E of Sneem. The construction date of this road is not known.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.