Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Architectural fragment
Castleroberts, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castleroberts
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castleroberts Br.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castleroberts Bridge (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.54336, -8.76743
- SMR number
- LI021-036----
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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
Castleroberts Bridge crossing the River Maigue was built in the late 18th century with fabric from a medieval church (LI021-132----) and castle (LI021-037----) located 330m to E. In 1865 it was recorded that 'The ruins of this [Castleroberts] church, and of part of the old castle, were pulled down for materials to build a bridge over the Maigue at Castle Roberts, about seventy or eighty years ago (c. 1785-95)' (Dunraven 1865, 270). In 1840 the Ordnance Survey described the bridge as consisting of '8 arches, built in 1795' (OSNB, 57).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 02 January 2019
References
Dunraven, the Countess of 1865 Memorials of Adare manor. With historical notices of Adare, by the earl of Dunraven E.R.W. WyndhamQuin.
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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.