Survey Data
Reg No
60260035
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Scientific, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1850 - 1855
Coordinates
320902, 221871
Date Recorded
21/03/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch road bridge over river, built 1852; dated 1852. Part ivy-covered walls with cut-granite rounded coping to parapets centred on cut-granite date stone (west) or benchmark-inscribed cut-granite milestone (east). Single segmental arch with lichen-spotted granite ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Loughlinstown River with ivy-covered banks to river.
Appraisal
A bridge representing an integral component of the mid nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of south County Dublin with the architectural value of the composition, one succeeding an eighteenth-century bridge (1770) annotated as "Boddies Bridge" on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey (surveyed 1837; published 1843), suggested not only by the silver-grey granite dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arch making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the stream-like Loughlinstown River: meanwhile, a benchmark remains of additional interest for the connections with cartography and the preparation of maps by the Ordnance Survey (established 1824).