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Ford

River Shannon, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ford, River Shannon, County Roscommon, 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
River Shannon
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.27913, -8.05070
SMR number
RO056-018002-

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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)
  • 1811 · 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

A manuscript of 1766 in the RIA (ms. G. 1. 2) by a Col. Roy on a short tour of Ireland, says that there are several fords on the River Shannon between Athlone and Banagher, but that roads do not lead to them, except to Raghra (Shannonbridge) and Ballaghna, two miles below the Seven Churches. Ballaghna is not identified, but it may be the ford at Cloonburren (RO056-011003-). The ford of Raghra was described in 1620 by Mathew de Renzy as a 'foule and daungerous waye over that reiver weare (RO056-018003-)' between Mac Coughlin's country in Co. Offaly and Ballinasloe, Co. Galway. (Mac Cuarta 1987, 178-9)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

Mac Cuarta, B. 1987 Mathew De Renzy's Letters on Irish Affairs. Analecta Hibernica 34, 109-82.

Nearby in the register

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

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