Reg No
22400605
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1775 - 1780
Coordinates
183810, 198058
Date Recorded
07/08/2004
Date Updated
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Triple-arch limestone bridge, built as a toll bridge in 1776, having stone piers at each end of parapet walls and toll collectors' booths recessed to centre. Rubble limestone stonework with cut-stone voussoirs to round arches. Rubble coping stones and with concrete casing to base of piers. Inscribed stone plaque to booth on east side reads: 'This bridge was built 1776, Richard Biggs Esqr Overseer'.
Built by Richard Biggs, the owner of Drominagh Demesne, this toll bridge has been little altered and retains all its original character. Unusually flamboyant in design for such a rural location this bridge is an example of the standard of construction aspired to on the demesnes of the eighteenth century.