Survey Data
Reg No
11903708
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Scientific, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1795 - 1805
Coordinates
270640, 188287
Date Recorded
25/10/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch hump back bridge over canal, opened 1800. Part ivy-covered benchmark-inscribed coursed rough cut limestone walls with cut-limestone coping to parapets. Single segmental arch with margined tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs centred on margined tooled cut-limestone keystones. Sited spanning canal with unkempt grass banks to canal.
Appraisal
A bridge representing an important component of the civil engineering heritage of County Kildare with the architectural value of the composition confirmed not only by the sheer blue-grey limestone dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arch making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the Levitstown Cut of the Barrow Navigation opened (1800) by the Barrow Navigation Company (incorporated 1790): meanwhile, a benchmark remains of additional interest for the connections with cartography and the preparation of maps by the Ordnance Survey (established 1824).