Survey Data
Reg No
12400102
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1765 - 1785
Coordinates
245769, 178090
Date Recorded
16/10/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Five-arch rubble limestone road bridge over river, c.1775. Random rubble limestone walls with tooled cut-limestone triangular cut-waters to piers having rendered coping, and squared rubble limestone coping to parapets having sections of rounded coping. Series of five segmental arches with rubble limestone voussoirs, and rendered soffits. Sited spanning Ouveg River with grass banks to river.
Appraisal
A well-composed middle-size bridge forming an important element of the mid to late eighteenth-century civil engineering heritage of Kilkenny. Distinguishing characteristics including the construction in unrefined locally-sourced rubble stone together with the non-uniform profile or scale of the arches produces a rustic quality integrating the composition pleasantly into the surrounding rural landscape.