Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Rathmore (shrule By.), County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmore (shrule By.)
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tang Bridge
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tang Br.
- Coordinates
- 53.53743, -7.79300
- SMR number
- LF026-038----
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
Formerly spanning the Tang River, which forms the boundary with county Westmeath. Depicted on the Down Survey (1655-6) map of Abbeyshrule barony (NLI, MS 719) and named 'Tang Bridge' on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Described in the OS Name Book as ‘a small bridge of 2 arches’ (OSNB, 1836-7, Noughaval parish, book 19, 363). Following the diversion of the river along a new course c. 60m to the S and the construction of another bridge, the public road was straightened and this bridge became obsolete. It is incorporated in the field boundary along the W side of the road. Its E face and just one of the arches, a segmental arch (Wth 2m; H 1m) of roughly cut voussoirs, are now visible. The arch has been filled in.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 28 May 2012
References
NLI, MS 719 - National Library of Ireland, The parish maps of the Down Survey of Co. Longford attested by W. Petty under date 1657. Copied by Daniel O'Brien. A set of 22 maps with accompanying terriers, 1786-7. Dublin.
OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.