Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Blackfriary (2nd Division), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Blackfriary (2nd Division)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55256, -6.78505
- SMR number
- ME036-101----
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
Located on the N bank of the River Boyne at a point where it begins to change from a NW-SE direction to a WSW-ENE direction. A channel of the river (L c. 200m), no longer visible but depicted on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map, cut off the bend of the river and created a little island which was accessed by this bridge. It is a single arch (Wth 4.7m; present H 2.6m; T 2.2m) of quarried limestone but neither outer face of the arch survives. The date is unknown, but the channel might have been cut to avoid weirs in the main river.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 18 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.