Survey Data
Reg No
11802041
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
Milestone/milepost
In Use As
Milestone/milepost
Date
1830 - 1870
Coordinates
288485, 239929
Date Recorded
25/06/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding cut-granite milestone, c.1850, on a triangular plan with inscriptions indicating distances to Maynooth and to Dublin. Road fronted on tarmacadam verge.
Appraisal
This milestone is an attractive, if subtle, item of street furniture that is often overlooked by the passer-by. The milestone is of considerable social and historical interest, attesting to the coaching era in Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The milestone displays fine craftsmanship to the inscriptions that have retained a crisp intricacy.