Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Monalour Lower,cooladalane Upper,glentaun West,rath Upper, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monalour Lower,cooladalane Upper,glentaun West,rath Upper
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rian Bó Phadraig
- Coordinates
- 52.16693, -7.90963
- SMR number
- WA021-002----
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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
The Rian Bó Phaidraigh runs S from the Knockmealdown Mounatains on the line of a N-S road through Poulfadda to Monalour townland, but where a minor branch road turns sharply E in Monalour, the Rian is thought to continue S on the line of field banks (L c. 900m) until it meets a minor NE-SW road in Cooladine townland. About 400m to the SSW it is thought to be continued by a farm lane in Cooladine and by a minor N-S road between Rath and Glentaun West townlands (L c. 1.4km). This brings it to the edge of the steep incline down to the W-E River Blackwater c. 1.5km NW of the Church of Limore (WA021-019003- ) and about the same distance from the motte and bailey (WA020-022-----) to the SE, where the roadway seems to have headed. (Power, 1905, 119-120)
Power, Rev. P. (1905) The Rian bó Phadruig (the ancient highway of the Decies) JRSAI 35, 110-29.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 February 2011
References
Power, Rev. P. 1905 The Rian Bó Phádraig (the ancient highway of the Decies). Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 35, 110-29.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Earthwork1 mi
- Burial ground1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.