Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Ballyrafton, County Kilkenny, Ireland
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----
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
Baillie and Buckley (1997, 35) noted that Ballyrafton was included in an unpublished list of horizontal mills compiled by A.T. Lucas (former NMI director) having been investigated in July 1957 by the NMI.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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.