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Bridge

Ballinard, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bridge, Ballinard, 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
Ballinard
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Cloghansoun Br.
Latest-edition OS map
Cloghansoun Bridge (1927)
Coordinates
52.52226, -8.47805
SMR number
LI032-082----

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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

The medieval bridge of 'Cloghansawny' which provided a crossing point over the Camoge River was described in the 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick as following; 'There are on the River of Camoge two Bridges, viz: Cloghansawny and Sixmilebridge' (Simington 1938, 94). The bridge is depicted on the 1654-7 Down Survey map of Small barony (NLI, MS 718).

See attached image showing the bridge on the Down Survey map.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 24 February 2020

References

NLI, MS 718 - National Library of Ireland, Parish maps with terriers, showing forfeited lands in County Limerick, commonly known as the "Down Survey", executed under the direction of Sir William Petty, 1657, and copied by Daniel O'Brien, 1786.

Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1938 The civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. IV: county of Limerick, with a section of Clanmaurice barony Co. Kerry. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.

Nearby in the register

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

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