Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Lacken (gaultiere By.), County Waterford, Ireland
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----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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 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
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- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.