Survey Data
Reg No
14807077
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1840 - 1860
Coordinates
234239, 224940
Date Recorded
12/10/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch masonry road bridge, built 1857, carrying the Tullamore to Daingean road over the River Tullamore. Coursed limestone blocks. Parapet walls of random rubble. Bases of abutments faced with concrete. Segmental profile arch with finely dressed limestone voussoirs.
Appraisal
Pound Bridge, constructed over the Tullamore River, is on the site of an earlier eighteenth/nineteenth-century bridge. This bridge was erected by the Board of Works as part of the Brosna drainage scheme.