Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Borrismore, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Borrismore
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Boherkieran
- Latest-edition OS map
- Site of Boherkieran
- Coordinates
- 52.72797, -7.55195
- SMR number
- KK012-008----
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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
In gently rolling terrain of low hills and hollows, mostly under reclaimed pasture. The OS Letters (1839) mention that they were shown by the locals, 'a piece of an old road in the same Townland [Borrismore] extending about a quarter of a mile [c. 400m] in length and thirty two feet [c. 10m] in breadth, and say that it was made by Saint Kieran from the Church of Feartagh to Callan' (O'Flanagan ed. 1930, vol. 1, 109 (36)). The line of the road appears to follow a N-S hollow running between low hillocks on either side, though it is otherwise not visible at ground level. It is visible as a cropmark on an aerial photograph (CUCAP BDL036, 15 July 1970), appearing as a lighter gently curving linear feature defined by a darker line on either side, suggestive of a fosse on either side.
See attached photograph:
KK012-008----_01 CUCAP BDL036, 15 July 1970
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 15 May 2019
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Kilkenny collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Bray.
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