What is recorded here

Half a century before Henry wrote, the tower still stood guard on the Moy bridge, a square room of doors and locks above the water. It is gone now, replaced by a modern span, but the river still carries the shape of that threshold beneath the road.

This gatehouse on a bridge (MA030-056001-) over the River Moy in Ballina town was still extant in the early 18th century, when it was recorded by Rev. William Henry (1739) as ‘a large square tower with a gate and guard room' rising from and controlling access to the bridge. A modern bridge now stands at this location. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 April 2018

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