Sheeps Bridge

Situated on a low-lying landscape on the canalised St. John's Pill and the old Waterford to Tramore railway line. The 'Shepyn Bridge' is recorded in a lease of 1495 (Power 1952, 199), and it has become attached to a modern bridge. The location of the original bridge may have been c. 600m to the SSW where it is marked on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Archaeological testing (03E1177) in the area for the Waterford outer ring-road failed to recover any evidence of a feature at that location (Hegarty 2003b). Hegarty, L. (2006b) Lackan. Railway line. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 507 No. 1913. Wordwell. Bray Power, Rev. P. (1952) The placenames of the Decies. (second ed.) Cork University Press. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 04 January 2011