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Road - road/trackway

Knockannanagh,Knockaungarriff,Poulfadda,Reanabarna, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - road/trackway, County Waterford, 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
Knockannanagh,Knockaungarriff,Poulfadda,Reanabarna
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Rian Bo Phadraig
Coordinates
52.20888, -7.90190
SMR number
WA012-001----

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on the S-facing slope of the Knockmealdown Mountains. The ‘Rian Bo Phadraig’ is the surviving remnant of a roadway which traditionally connected Cashel and Lismore. Smith (1746, 355-7) describes it as a double-ditch thought to extend from Cashel to Ardmore by way of Lismore, and it is described as the road from Lismore to Ardfinnan on Scalé maps (NLI: ms. 7217, 1, 34), dated 1773. Its course has been traced by Power (1905), and within Co. Waterford it extended in a straight line from a pass on the summit of the Knockmealdown Mountains to St Carthage’s monastery at Lismore (W021-019002-).
The only surviving section in Co. Waterford extends from the Clongeen-Cappoquin road at the foothills of the mountains, through Reanabarna and Knockannanagh townlands, to the summit of the pass (L c. 3km), from where it continues in Co. Tipperary (TS091-001----). It is visible as a stream-bed or as a sunken roadway (Wth 3m; max. D 1m). It appears to be overlain by the boundary (WA011-007----).

Power, Rev. P. (1905) The Rian bó Phadruig (the ancient highway of the Decies) JRSAI 35, 110-29.
Smith, C. (1746) The history of the town and county of Waterford. W. Wilson. Dublin.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Revised by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 02 November 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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