Survey Data
Reg No
11902710
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1875 - 1880
Coordinates
270504, 205606
Date Recorded
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Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch cut-stone road bridge over river, dated 1876, with rock-faced voussoirs and cut-stone parapet walls having cut-stone date stone/plaque and dressed stone coping. Coursed rock-faced cut-stone walls to abutments. Coursed rock-faced cut-stone parapet walls. Cut-stone date stone/plaque. Dressed stone coping. Single round arch. Rock-faced voussoirs. Squared rubble stone soffits with traces of render over. Sited spanning stream with grass banks to stream.
Appraisal
Nurney Bridge is a fine stone bridge that forms an imposing feature on the stream that flows through the village. 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 Kildare River Drainage scheme undertaken by the Board of Works in the late nineteenth century with the purpose of enabling bogland to the surrounding farm holdings to be drained and cultivated - this has subsequently formed the basis of current flood relief works.