Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Dunganstown East, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunganstown East
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kevins Lane
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kevins Lane
- Coordinates
- 52.91594, -6.08612
- SMR number
- WI031-025----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Traditional pilgrim's path running ENE-WSW for c. 760m (max. Wth 16m) from St. Kevin’s Well (WI031-026----) towards Dunganstown church (WI031-035----) and castle (WI031-023----). Defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2-2.4m; avg. H 1.5m) on either side which both have drystone facings along substantial sections at the NE end. This may have been a mass path later adopted for the castle and house drive and subsequently for the modern road. The OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1928, 167) refer to this as 'Kevin's little road' and 'Kevin's lane'.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 12 July 2013
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1928 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Wicklow collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.