Survey Data
Reg No
11901702
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
270320, 221666
Date Recorded
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Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch rock-faced snecked limestone hump back road bridge over river, c.1800, with rock-faced voussoirs, curved parapet walls and coping. Rock-faced snecked limestone walls. Rock-faced parapet walls. Cut-stone coping. Single round arch. Rock-faced voussoirs. Rubble stone soffits with traces of render over. Sited spanning Slate River with grass banks to river.
Appraisal
Agar Bridge is a fine stone bridge that forms an imposing and picturesque feature on the Slate River and is one of a group of bridges on that river in 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 social and historic interest, representing a component of the nationwide road network development in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries.