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Road - road/trackway

Tintern, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - road/trackway, Tintern, County Wexford, 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
Tintern
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.24027, -6.83285
SMR number
WX045-091----

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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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located on a SW-facing slope overlooking the valley of the NW-SE Tintern stream, with Tintern abbey (WX045-027001-) c. 400m to the SW. The cropmark of a roadway (Wth c. 10m) defined by two ditch features emerges from the E side of the trees bordering the present N-S avenue into Tintern. The cropmark road runs E (L c. 50m) and turns SSE to rise up the slope at a gentle angle (total L c. 250m). This is undoubtedly associated with the Colclough use of the abbey and represents an earlier route for the avenue as marked on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, which it emerges at Poundtown cross-roads c. 850m NNE of the abbey.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 July, 2013

Nearby in the register

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

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