Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Tristernagh Demesne, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tristernagh Demesne
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59871, -7.48197
- SMR number
- WM011-052----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on wet partially reclaimed grassland at the NE end of a roadway (WM011-049----) known as 'Bohereennamarve' or 'little road of the dead'. This roadway connected Templecross church (WM011-051----) and graveyard (WM011-051001-) 420m to SW to Tristernagh Abbey (WM011-053----) located 160m E of the bridge. The W shore of Lough Iron is 420m to the ENE. Poorly preserved mortared limestone single round-arched bridge traversing a small stream or drain. Poorly drained land with possible fish-pond (WM011-054----) in field immediately to S of bridge. Only a portion of the N and S ends of the bridge survive intact. A bush annotated as 'Doherty's Bush' on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map stood beside the bridge but no longer survives.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 18 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Fish-pondunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Icehouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.