Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Weir - fish
Raghrabeg, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Raghrabeg
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27913, -8.05070
- SMR number
- RO056-018003-
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
The ford of Raghra (RO056-018002-) was described in 1620 by Mathew de Renzy as a 'foule and daungerous waye over that reiver weare' between Mac Coughlin's country in Co. Offaly and Ballinasloe, Co. Galway. The ford would appear to have been primarily a wear, which may have been situated where a weir is indicated on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, c. 50m below the bridge (RO056-018001-). (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
- Fordunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.