Survey Data
Reg No
12316007
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1740 - 1760
Coordinates
252495, 144018
Date Recorded
05/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Two-arch rubble stone road bridge over river, c.1750. Irregular coursed squared rubble stone walls with cut-stone triangular cut-waters to pier, rubble stone buttress, and squared limestone rounded coping to parapets. Pair of round arches with cut-limestone voussoirs, and squared limestone soffits having remains of render over. Sited spanning tributary of Kings River with grass banks to river.
Appraisal
A small-scale bridge representing an important artefact of the mid eighteenth-century civil engineering heritage of County Kilkenny. The traditional construction in locally-sourced limestone with dressed accents displaying good quality craftsmanship serves to assimilate the bridge attractively into the surrounding rural landscape.