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Bridge

Lacken (Gaultiere By.), County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bridge, Lacken, 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
Lacken (Gaultiere By.)
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Sheeps Bridge
Coordinates
52.22846, -7.12425
SMR number
WA017-015----

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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)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a low-lying landscape on the canalised St. John's Pill and the old Waterford to Tramore railway line. The 'Shepyn Bridge' is recorded in a lease of 1495 (Power 1952, 199), and it has become attached to a modern bridge. The location of the original bridge may have been c. 600m to the SSW where it is marked on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Archaeological testing (03E1177) in the area for the Waterford outer ring-road failed to recover any evidence of a feature at that location (Hegarty 2003b).

Hegarty, L. (2006b) Lackan. Railway line. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 507 No. 1913. Wordwell. Bray
Power, Rev. P. (1952) The placenames of the Decies. (second ed.) Cork University Press.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 04 January 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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