Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Grangecuffe, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grangecuffe
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KK023-095----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Hogan (1880-83, 46) refers to a pre-1750 road called ‘Walkin-street’, which, ‘formed the principal entrance into the city [Kilkenny] from the numerous mansions of the Anglo-Irish families in the south and south-western parts of the country. This road led directly from Tipperary, by Ballymack, to Burnchurch, then to Ballybur, and thence to Inchihologhan, whence it ran into the city, over Poulgour bridge and down Walkin-street. The portion of this road which connected Ballybur with Inchihologhan is now closed up, but its course through the fields is still traceable on the Ordnance Townland Survey (sheet 23)’. The road is not apparent on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map. The precise location of this road is unknown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 7 September 2021
References
Hogan, J. 1880-83 Notes on ancient churches and castles of Ballybur Inchihologan. Transactions of the Ossory Archaeological Society 2, 33-49.