Survey Data
Reg No
11810020
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Foot bridge
In Use As
Foot bridge
Date
1860 - 1900
Coordinates
267860, 219627
Date Recorded
12/06/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Two-span cast-iron footbridge over river, c.1880, probably originally two-arch on stone piers. Renovated and remodelled, c.1980, with cast-iron span added. Cast-iron girder span, c.1980, with iron mesh path and iron railings. Rubble stone piers (one to centre with one to each bank to north-east and to south-west). Sited spanning Slate River with grass banks to river.
Appraisal
This bridge is an attractive footbridge that forms a subtle feature on the Slate River and is one of a group of bridges (both footbridges and road bridges) on the section of that river that passes through County Kildare. Probably originally a two-arch rubble stone structure, the bridge was extensively remodelled in the late twentieth century with a cast-iron girder span replacing the original crossing – the replacement span is of some technical or engineering merit as a late twentieth-century method of forming a crossing over a river.