Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Derreenasoo, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derreenasoo
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Wooden Bridge
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.02860, -8.09011
- SMR number
- RO004-041001-
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
Marked as a wooden bridge standing beside a weir (RO004-041002-) on a Longfield map of the 18th century (NLI, MS 21. F. 43 (035)) and on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It crossed the River Shannon into county Leitrim. Described as a series of stone piers connected by oak planks overlain by wicker and gravel. It was replaced by a five-arch masonry bridge c. 170m downstream in 1896 (O'Keeffe & Simington 1991, 107-9). Cross-referenced with LE023-031----.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
O'Keeffe, P. and Simington, T. 1991 Irish stone bridges: history and heritage. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.
National Library of Ireland, A map of lands at Derreenasoo in the barony of Boyle and County of Roscommon. Names of tenants and acreage of holdings shown. Longfield Map Collection.
Nearby in the register
- Weir - regulatingunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Weir - regulatingunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.