Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Knightswood, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knightswood
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59907, -7.35791
- SMR number
- WM012-033----
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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
A report dated, 27 August 1984, recorded the former presence a single large stone slab or flagstone was used as a bridge to cross the River Gaine at this point but it had been broken up as part of improvement works undertaken on the river (SMR file). This stone slab may have been the footbridge described in 1682 by Sir Henry Piers of Tristernagh who wrote that at Kinghtswood 'there sustainteth a late built footbridge' (Vallancey 1786, 6). On the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map an old laneway crosses the river at this point. Rahanduff ringfort (WM012-042----) stands along the N side of this old roadway 350m to the NE of the crossing point.
Compiled and revised by: Paul Walsh & Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 6 December 2016
References
Vallancey, C. (ed.) 1786 Collectanea de rebus hibernicis, Volume 1. Dublin. Luke White.
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.