Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Boskill, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boskill
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Track of King Williams Road
- Latest-edition OS map
- Track of King Williams Road (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.59220, -8.46775
- SMR number
- LI014-080----
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
In pasture, 380m SSE of the village of Caherconlish and 370m SW of Boskill House (LI014-082----). Annotated ‘Track of King William's Road’ on the 1840 OS 6-inch map where it is depicted running E-W for a length of 260m. According to the Ordnance Survey this road was also known as 'The Hag's Road' or 'The Stony Road' and was described as following; 'King William's Road, so called because the King travelled on it to Limerick, was levelled about the year 1789, and during the levelling process a great number of coins were found by the workmen' (OSNB Caherconlish Parish, 302). Old roadway visible today as a fosse (Wth. 2.2m; D 0.2-0.6m) which runs alongside a field boundary to the S. It crosses the field boundary mid-way along the field but is not visible in the field to the N. There is a possible terminus at the E. Cropmark of trackway visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 to the S of a field boundary.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018 and 05/04/2006
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date upload: 6 July 2020
References
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.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.