Survey Data
Reg No
11803087
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1790 - 1800
Coordinates
293662, 237742
Date Recorded
30/04/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Three-arch rubble stone road bridge over river, c.1795, with cut-stone triangular cut-waters, cut-stone voussoirs and cut-stone coping. Coursed squared rubble stone walls. Cut-stone triangular cut-waters. Cut-stone coping to parapet walls. Three segmental arches. Cut-stone voussoirs. Rubble stone soffits with render over. Sited spanning Lyreen River with grass banks to river.
Appraisal
William Bridge is a fine rubble stone bridge that forms an attractive feature on the Lyreen River and is one of a group of bridges on the section of that river that passes through County Kildare. The construction of the arches that have retained their original shape is of technical and engineering merit. The bridge exhibits good quality stone masonry and fine, crisp joints, most notably to the cut-stone triangular cut-waters. The bridge is of considerable historical and social significance as a reminder of the road network development in Ireland in the late eighteenth century.