Survey Data
Reg No
12316005
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1825 - 1830
Coordinates
252484, 143913
Date Recorded
05/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Three-arch cut-limestone road bridge over river, dated 1827. Coursed cut-limestone walls with limestone ashlar squat triangular cut-waters to piers, battered buttresses having square-headed slit-style 'gun loop' apertures, roundels flanking central arch having cut-limestone surrounds, rectangular recessed panels over outer arches having cut-limestone surrounds, and random squared rubble limestone parapets having cut-limestone coping. Series of three segmental arches with limestone ashlar voussoirs (one inscribed as date stone keystone), and rendered squared rubble stone soffits. Sited spanning Kings River with grass banks to river.
Appraisal
Representing an important artefact of the early nineteenth-century civil engineering legacy of County Kilkenny an elegantly-profiled bridge forms an attractive landmark on a crossing over the Kings River. Exhibiting high quality traditional stone masonry the construction in locally-sourced limestone serves to integrate the site pleasantly into the surrounding rural landscape while refined Classically-derived dressings further enliven the aesthetic appeal of the composition.