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Memorial stone (present location)

Rathquarter, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Memorial stone (present location), Rathquarter, County Sligo, 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
Rathquarter
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.27278, -8.47291
SMR number
SL014-284008-

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In Sligo County Museum is a stone with a Latin inscription recording the building of a bridge (SL020-230001-) over the river at Ballsadare Bay by Maria, wife of the soldier Roger Jones, in the year 1628 (Sligo Field Club files). The inscription reads 'Maria Jones, Rogeri Militus Uxor hunc pontem struxit. Anno 1628. Pons Fabricatricis menorat sua facta; superstat marmore qua viva posteritatis inops dumque lapis superest crit indelible nomen, dinque viatores, munera tanta beant.' There are no visible remains of the 17th-century bridge (SL020-230001-). The present bridge is a disused causeway bridge of 19th-century appearance between a railway line and the modern N4 road. It has two semicircular arches, roughly 12m apart, one partially replaced with concrete and the other blocked up leaving only a small lintelled channel.

Compiled by: Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 29 August 2014

Nearby in the register

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

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