Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Friarstown South, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Friarstown South
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Sixmile Br.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sixmile Bridge
- Coordinates
- 52.54101, -8.54687
- SMR number
- LI023-063002-
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
The present 19th century Sixmile Bridge crossing the Camoge River was possibly built on the site of the medieval bridge depicted on the Down Survey Barony map of Smallcounty (Hib. Reg.). The current road bridge was described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) as a ‘Double-arch road bridge, built c. 1800, carrying a road over the River Camoge. Rubble limestone walls with render copings to parapets. Round-headed arches with cut limestone voussoirs. U-cutwaters’ (www.buildingsofireland.ie; NIAH Reg. No. 21902305).
See attached Down Survey Barony map of Smallcounty.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 28 August 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.
Nearby in the register
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Franciscan Third Order Regularunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.