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Road - road/trackway

Monalour Lower,Cooladalane Upper,Glentaun West,Rath Upper, 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
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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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

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

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

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