Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Drumhierny, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumhierny
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Battle Br.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Battle Br.
- Coordinates
- 53.99635, -8.07850
- SMR number
- LE027-140----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Battle Bridge crossing the river Shannon connecting the county of Leitrim to Roscommon. Situated c. 1km NW of Leitrim village on the road to Boyle, Co. Roscommon. The road is depicted on Taylor and Skinner’s map of Irish roads of 1788 (Andrews 1969, 234). The bridge is described as 'Battle Bridge' in italic lettering on the OS 6-inch maps for counties Roscommon and Leitrim. This is an eighteenth or nineteenth-century road bridge across the River Shannon which was probably built in its present form in conjunction with the Shannon Navigation, the most northerly section of which commences c. 200m downstream. There is no visible surface evidence of an antiquity. Cross reference with RO007-091003-
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 5 April, 2017
References
Andrews, J.H. (ed.) 1969 Maps of the roads of Ireland. Shannon. Irish University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.