Survey Data
Reg No
20844065
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Scientific, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1860 - 1865
Coordinates
149292, 54983
Date Recorded
07/05/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch road bridge, built 1864, spanning Bridewell River. Round-headed arch with tooled limestone voussoirs, having raised keystones to side (north-east and south-west) elevations. Roughly dressed stone block spandrels and abutments with tooled string course over arch. Splayed roughly-dressed stone parapet walls with pier to end of north parapet, having chamfered tooled limestone copings.
Appraisal
A fine single-arch bridge, built on the site of an earlier double-arch bridge, which demonstrates the excellent quality stone work of nineteenth-century masons. Colloquially known as "Irishtown Bridge", it once lead to the area of Bandon which was traditionally associated with native Irish Catholics, hence Irishtown. Such a division was once common to many towns and cities in the past.