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Road - road/trackway

Tristernagh, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - road/trackway, Tristernagh, County Westmeath, 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
Tristernagh
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Bohereennamarve
Latest-edition OS map
Bohereennamarve
Coordinates
53.59664, -7.49406
SMR number
WM011-049----

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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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · 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

The remains of a roadway depicted on all editions of the OS 6-inch map as 'Bohereennamarve' meaning 'little road of the dead' and which appears to connect the public road to Templecross church (WM011-051----) and graveyard (WM011-051001-) and onwards to Tristernagh Abbey (WM011-053----). The roadway (approx. Wth. 15m) runs from SW to NE for a distance of c. 1.3km. A small bridge (WM011-052----) at the NE end of the roadway traverses a small stream giving access to Tristernagh Abbey (WM011-053----).
An Extent of the priory lands made at Tristernagh Priory on the 8th of October 1540 described the road as following; 'Within the site of the priory (WM011-053----) or manor:—a church, which is the parish church; its belfry is a stone tower. Certain chambers and other buildings necessary for the farmer's use. A curtilage surrounded with a stone wall. All these are situated above a large lake (Lough Iron), broad and deep. The other parts of the site are surrounded with a large bog, except that there is a single straight road (WM011-049----) for entrance' (White 1943, 276).

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 21 October 2010

References

White, N.B. 1943 Extents of Irish monastic possessions, 1540-1541. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.

Nearby in the register

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

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