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Garraunbeg, County Tipperary North, Ireland

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Townland
Garraunbeg
County
Tipperary North
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Track of Cromwells Road
Coordinates
52.75790, -8.33938
SMR number
TN031-042----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 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.
SMR TN026-055 is part of the same road.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.

Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Nearby in the register

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

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