Survey Data
Reg No
11803133
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Previous Name
Pond Bridge
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1790 - 1800
Coordinates
293460, 237158
Date Recorded
07/02/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch rubble stone hump back road bridge over canal, dated 1795, with ashlar voussoirs, cut-stone date stones/plaques and cut-stone coping. Irregular coursed squared rubble stone walls. Cut-stone date stones/plaques. Cut-stone coping to parapet walls. Single elliptical arch with ashlar voussoirs. Rubble stone soffits with remains of lime render over. Sited spanning Royal Canal with tow path running underneath to north.
Appraisal
Bond Bridge is a fine rubble stone bridge that forms an imposing feature on the Royal Canal and is one of a group of bridges on the section of that canal that passes through County Kildare. The construction of the arch that has retained its original shape is of technical and engineering merit. The bridge exhibits good quality stone masonry and fine, crisp joints. The bridge is of considerable historical and social significance as a reminder of the canal network development in Ireland, which brought about many technical advances and developed commercial activity in Maynooth in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries.