Survey Data
Reg No
11805077
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Previous Name
Celbridge Abbey
Original Use
Foot bridge
In Use As
Foot bridge
Date
1760 - 1790
Coordinates
297130, 232717
Date Recorded
05/02/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch rubble stone hump back footbridge over canalised section of river, c.1775, with rubble stone voussoirs. Random rubble stone walls. Cut-stone coping. Single segmental arch. Rubble stone voussoirs. Rubble stone soffits with render over. Sited spanning canalised section of River Liffey with grass banks to river. Section of cut-stone retaining walls, c.1775, to river to north-east.
Appraisal
This bridge is an attractive rubble stone footbridge that forms an attractive feature on the canalised section of the River Liffey. The construction of the arch that has retained its original shape is of technical and engineering merit. Also of technical interest is the canalised section of the river to north-east that is bounded by cut-stone retaining walls. The bridge exhibits good quality masonry to the construction of the walls and to the retaining walls to the canalised section of the river to north-east. The bridge is of social and historical significance, having been built as part of the planned Celbridge Abbey estate.