Survey Data
Reg No
11900101
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Scientific, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1830 - 1835
Coordinates
266552, 243760
Date Recorded
03/10/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Three-arch bridge over river, dated 1831. Part ivy-covered tooled limestone ashlar walls centred on tooled limestone ashlar rounded cutwaters to piers on shuttered mass concrete battered plinths having curvilinear domed capping with lichen-spotted cut-limestone chamfered coping to benchmark-inscribed parapets having lichen-spotted cut-limestone rounded coping. Series of three segmental arches with tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs centred on tooled cut-limestone keystones. Sited spanning River Boyne with unkempt banks to river.
Appraisal
A bridge representing an important component of the early nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of County Kildare with the architectural value of the composition, '[a] very handsome bridge erected in 1831' (Lewis 1837 I, 349), confirmed not only by the construction in a silver-grey limestone demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arches making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the River Boyne: meanwhile, a benchmark remains of additional interest for the connections with cartography and the preparation of maps by the Ordnance Survey (established 1824).