Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ford
River Shannon, County Roscommon, Ireland
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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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
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
- Fordunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.