Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Gorteenadiha (kilmore Par., North Riding),goulreagh,longstone (killoscully Par.),shallee (coughlan),shallee (white), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteenadiha (kilmore Par., North Riding),goulreagh,longstone (killoscully Par.),shallee (coughlan),shallee (white)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cromwells Road
- Coordinates
- 52.78759, -8.29542
- SMR number
- TN026-055----
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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
Situated on a N-facing slope of the Silvermines Mountains. A stone roadway (Wth 3.5m) running NE-SW. According to the OS Namebooks Cromwell built the road as part of the main Limerick-Dublin road. Roadway marked TN026-091 and TN031-042, TN031-091, TN031-092 are a continuation of this road on the ordnance survey maps.
Also included in inventory is section of road which continues on OS sh. 31 and has the RMP number 31:42* with description as follows:
Situated on high ground in an upland area. Poorly preserved traces of a barely discernible metalled roadway (Wth 3.5m) running N-S. According to the OS Namebooks this was an old road used by Cromwell along which he conducted his armies and military stores.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.