Glashagarriff Bridge

Glashagarriff Bridge situated 2.8 km west of Coachford village in County Cork, Ireland is the meeting point of four townlands , two catholic parishes and two civil parishes .

Referred to as 'Clashgarriff Br.' on the 1841 surveyed OS map, and 'Glashagarriff Br.' on the 1901 surveyed OS map, the bridge spans the Glashagarriff River before it joins the River Lee a short distance to the south. Glashagarriff is an anglicised version of the Irish Glaise Gharbh . Smith in 1750, refers to the 'Glashigarriff' river. At Cork Spring Assizes in 1807, a presentment was approved in favour of Richard Townsend and Cornelius Molony to repair 'Gassagariff bridge, between Cork and Macromp' for the amount of £10 9s 4d. At Cork Spring Assizes in March 1828, an application for a presentment was approved for the amount of £71 8s 8d, in favour of Charles Colthurst, John Bowen, John Haly and William Haly 'to widen Glashagorrive bridge on the road from Cork to Macroom. The Ordnance Survey name book gives various versions such as 'Clashgorrave', 'Closhagorrave', 'Closhagorriff' and 'Closhagorriv', and describes the river as rising out of the bogs of Doneens and Lyroe, flowing between the parishes of Aghinagh, Aghabollogue and Magourney, and falling into the River Lee to the south. An Irish Tourist Association survey of 1944 refers to the Glashagarriff river as having brown trout and freshwater eels, but no salmon angling, nor permit for trout fishing required.

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