What is recorded here
This bridge gives its name to the town of Ballindrait (Baile an Droicheaid - the town or place of the bridge), and there may have been a bridge here by the early 17th century at the latest. The village probably dates from the Plantation-era. A bridge is depicted here on Moll’s map of Ireland (1714) while the town is…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DG070-081
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Kenneth Allen, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
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- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- Mike Simms, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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