Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Sheepstown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheepstown
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KK031-015004-
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to Hogan (1860-61, 382), ‘Within a few hundred yards of the church [Sheepstown church KK031-015001-], where the present road curves round to cross this stream over a small stone bridge, my attention was attracted by the remains of an old roadway coming through the fields from the direction of “Dranganbeg;” and, as it approaches the stream, the place has all the appearance of having been an ancient ford’. This roadway is not indicated on either the 1st (1839)or 2nd (1901) ed. 6-inch OS map and is not visible on the OS ortho or Digitalglobe aerial imagery. The precise location of this roadway is unknown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 13 February 2017
References
Hogan, J. 1860-61 Topographical and historical illustrations of the suburbs of Kilkenny. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquarians of Ireland 6, 335-87.