Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Ballyconnor,millbrook, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyconnor,millbrook
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.81028, -8.10113
- SMR number
- TN027-153----
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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 NW-facing slope in pasture. A possible roadway indicated as a townland boundary on the 1904 ed. OS 6-inch map, oriented NW-SE. It is not depicted on the 1840 edition. In the OS Name Books (1840) there is a reference to 'Bohernagarranbawn (Bothar a Ghearain Bhain/Road of the White Garon (Horse)). This “White Horse Track” was so called, on account of a white horse carrying books along it belonging to the friars of Tyone and Holy Cross, this horse would bring the books (it is said) without a leader from one place to the other and always kept the same track'. The townland boundary consists of an earthen bank with some stones (Wth 2-2.5m; c. 0.8-1m H) and no ditch on either side.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.