Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Curragh (ballybacon Par.),knockballiniry,poulatar, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curragh (ballybacon Par.),knockballiniry,poulatar
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- The Goats Br.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Goats Br.
- Coordinates
- 52.27481, -7.87173
- SMR number
- TS088-039002-
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
According to Power (1908, 49) an early road (TS088-039001-) ran SSE from the ford of the Tar at Goaten Bridge to Ardmore. The site of this ford is now occupied by an 18th-century bridge, known as 'Goats Bridge'. It is a limestone bridge, with five round-arched spans, the central arch is the largest, with spans decreasing in size on either side. The bridge appears to be single-period as there is no evidence of widening. The arches are constructed with broad, cut-stone voussoirs. There are rounded cut-waters upstream to the W.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 04 December 2013
References
Power, P. 1908 Placenames of the Decies. Journal of the Waterford and Southeast of Ireland Archaeological Society 11, 1-34, 45-78, 135-43 and 179-210.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.