Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Ferns Upper, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ferns Upper
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Dorans Br.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dorans Bridge
- Coordinates
- 52.57847, -6.49309
- SMR number
- WX015-038----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) Edward Masterson and a FitzRobert owned land amounting to 600 acres in Upper Ferns, Crory, and the unkown Monedurloge, Aghnemoe (Askinamoe?), Bolinerdroome and Kavanasland (Castleland?) in Ferns parish (Simington 1953, 266). The property contained a Castle (WX015-003001-), a church and abbey (WX015-003004-), a mill in repair, a ruined mill, two bridges on the River Bann, and two weirs. Doran's bridge is a four-arch, hump-back bridge with arches of equal width, dressed voussoirs and cut-wawter piers. It was extant in 1839 (OS map) and is probably 18th century in date. See this web-page accessed on 9, May, 2014 http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 2 May, 2012
Amended: 9, May, 2014
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1953 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. IX: county of Wexford. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.