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Bridge

Clonconane, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bridge, Clonconane, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Clonconane
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Meelick Br.
Latest-edition OS map
Meelick Bridge
Coordinates
52.68472, -8.67798
SMR number
LI005-038----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Meelick Bridge traverses the Crompaun River or Meelick Creek connecting the townland of Clonconane in County Limerick to Meelick in County Clare.  The present 19th-century road bridge may have been built on the site of the medieval bridge that is depicted on the 17th-century Down Survey map of the Barony of North Liberties (Hib. Reg.;  BL Add MS 72870/14).  Present day road bridge described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as a ‘Single-arched humpback road bridge, built c. 1800, over the River Crompaun or Meelick Creek. Rubble limestone and sandstone walls. Extended to north elevation. Red brick voussoirs to round-headed arch’ (NIAH Reg. No. 21900501).  Cross referenced with CL062-049----.

See attached Down Survey map of the Barony of North Liberties which shows the bridge.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 8 June 2020

References

Hibernia Regnum: A set of 214 barony maps of Ireland dating to the period AD 1655-59. The original parish maps have been lost but the Hibernia Regnum maps are preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (Goblet 1932, v-x). Photographic facsimiles of these maps were published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton in 1908.

British Library, f. 117: 'The north Liberties of Lymricke in the Baronie of Bunratty & Parishes of Kile-ly & St Munthin by John Mason', 1656-1659.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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