Riverstown
Baile Uí Lachnáin | |
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Village | |
&sq=&lang=&file=File:Riverstown,_Birr_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1814341.jpg) The bridge at Riverstown on the Little Brosna | |
&sq=&lang=&file=File:Ireland_adm_location_map.svg)  Riverstown Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 53°04′58″N 7°55′27″W / 53.08273°N 7.92414°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | County Tipperary |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
Riverstown (Irish: Baile Uí Lachnáin, meaning 'town of O'Loughnin')[1] is a small village straddling the border between Counties Tipperary and Offaly on the outskirts of Birr in Ireland.[2] It is mostly within the townland of Ballyloughnane, on the Tipperary side of the river.
Riverstown lies at the point where the N52 national secondary road crosses the Little Brosna River, a tributary of the River Shannon, by a 300-year-old five-arch bridge, the Little Brosna here forming the border between the two counties. The bridge was described in the Civil Survey of 1654-6 as the 'old bridge of Beallanadarragh'.[3]
- ^ Riverstown. Irish Placenames Database. Retrieved: 2010-10-15.
- ^ Riverstown Settlement Plan
- ^ "Archaeological Survey Database SMR No TN005-035". National Monuments Service. Retrieved 3 March 2015.