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Bridge

Ballyrafton, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bridge, Ballyrafton, 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
Ballyrafton
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.73024, -7.27564
SMR number
KK014-012----

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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

Baillie and Buckley (1997, 35) noted that Ballyrafton was included in an unpublished list of horizontal mills compiled by A.T. Lucas (former NMI director) having been investigated in July 1957 by the NMI. The evidence for the mill consisted of a large oak beam (L c. 5m) with nine mortices (ibid.). However, Baillie and Buckley (ibid.) suggest that this is more likely to have been the base-beam of a small bridge across the River Dinin (ibid.). A sample from the timber gave a dendrochronological date of AD 794 ± 9 years (ibid.).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 11 May 2020

References

Baillie, M. and Buckley, V.M. 1997 Bridging the gaps with dendrochronology. Archaeology Ireland 11, no. 3, 35.

Nearby in the register

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

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