Survey Data
Reg No
31310905
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Scientific, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1800 - 1838
Coordinates
109706, 268111
Date Recorded
13/01/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch road bridge over river, extant 1838. Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked rock faced sandstone walls with repointed hammered limestone rounded coping to parapets. Single round arch with drag edged rusticated limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Abhainn Ghleann Sála [Glensaul River] with unkempt banks to river.
Appraisal
A bridge representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of Tuar Mhic Éadaigh [Toormakeady] with the architectural value of the composition, one recalling the contemporary Delpi Bridge (1823; see 31311502), suggested not only by the construction in a ruby-coloured sandstone offset by "sparrow pecked" sheer limestone dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arch making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over Abhainn Ghleann Sála [Glensaul River]: meanwhile, a much-weathered benchmark remains of additional interest for the connections with cartography and the preparation of maps by the Ordnance Survey (established 1824).