Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Greenan Beg, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greenan Beg
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Greenan Br.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Greenan Bridge
- Coordinates
- 52.92470, -6.29614
- SMR number
- WI029-006002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Price (1945, 21) noted a reference to the bridge at Greenan as 'the bridge at Ballenecor' in 1596. The present bridge here has a plaque which reads 'Greenan Bridge, AD 1844, Samuel Evans Builder'. There is no trace of an earlier bridge.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 05 July 2013
References
Price, L. 1945 The place-names of Co. Wicklow. I - The barony of Ballinacor North. The Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies (1-54).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.