Survey Data
Reg No
12400914
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1765 - 1785
Coordinates
244120, 166003
Date Recorded
08/11/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Five-arch rubble limestone road bridge over river, c.1775. Random rubble limestone walls with cut-limestone triangular cut-waters to piers having cut-limestone coping, cast-iron tie plates, pedestrian refuge on a shallow triangular plan, and squared rubble limestone coping to parapets. Series of five segmental arches with cut-limestone voussoirs, and rubble stone soffits having remains of render over. Sited spanning River Nore with grass banks to river.
Appraisal
An elegantly-appointed substantial bridge representing an important element of the mid to late eighteenth-century civil engineering heritage of County Kilkenny. Forming the crossing over a wide section of the River Nore the bridge represents an appealing landmark in the locality with the construction in locally-sourced stone serving to integrate the composition pleasantly into the surrounding rural landscape.