Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ford
River Blackwater, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- River Blackwater
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cassaunnaneave
- Latest-edition OS map
- "Casán na Naomh"
- Coordinates
- 52.12767, -7.84951
- SMR number
- WA029-012----
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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
According to Power (1908b, 5) there was a ford here called Áth Mheadhon - the middle ford - on the N-S River Blackwater (Wth c. 250m) where there are numerous islands at a place called Casán na Naomh - the Saint's path. The ford connected a section of what he considers an ancient road (WA020-016----) from Lismore with Affane on the E bank of the river. (Power 1905, 123)
Power, Rev. P. (1905) The Rian bó Phadruig (the ancient highway of the Decies) JRSAI 35, 110-29.
Power, Rev. P. (1908b) Dromore to Lismore - with notes on the antiquiteis to be visited on the society's annual excurstion, WAJ 12, 1-16.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 26 July 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.
Power, Rev. P. 1908b Dromore to Lismore - with notes on the antiquities to be visited on the society's annual excursion. Waterford and South East of Ireland Archaeological Journal 2, 1-16.
Nearby in the register
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.