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Road - road/trackway

Ballylarkin Lower, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - road/trackway, Ballylarkin Lower, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballylarkin Lower
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.72479, -7.43000
SMR number
KK013-014001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 261), the old road connecting the churches and castles of Killashoolan [KK009-055001- and KK009-056001-] and Ballylarkin [KK013-018001- and KK013-017001-] may still, in part, be traced. It crossed from Killashoolan by Kilrush castle [KK013-012----]; thence over the Nuenna, by a bridge now almost entirely destroyed; thence by the "monument bush," in a field in Ballylarkin, called the "Thur-duv;" and, thence, to Ballylarkin castle and church'. Slight traces of a roadway (L c. 260m) consisting of a level area (Wth 15m) with a low earthen bank on either side are visible 30m N of a ringfort (KK013-016----) running NW-SE before kinking northward towards Nuenna river.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 24 July 2019

References

Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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