Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Coolnaha South, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolnaha South
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Porsh-a-Thoggarth
- Coordinates
- 53.80082, -8.77225
- SMR number
- MA093-010----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
This road is not indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. It is indicated by parallel dashed lines on the 1916 edition where it is named ‘Porsh-a-Thoggarth’. The most likely Irish form is Póirse an tSagairt or priest’s road. Dinneen's dictionary explains póirse as "a porch, an entry, a gate; a narrow road, passage or laneway; any narrow place, a hole..." (pers. comm. Dónall Mac Giolla Easpaig, Chief Placenames Officer, and Fiachra Mac Gabhann). It appears to have served as a mass path leading to an ecclesiastical complex which includes a cashel (MA093-014005), a children's burial ground (MA093-014002), a bullaun stone (MA093-014003) and a holy well (MA093-014006).
The road can no longer be traced along its full length, although sections are preserved in the line of extant field boundaries and farm tracks.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 14 June 2022
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - embanked barrowunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.