Survey Data
Reg No
12401409
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1835 - 1845
Coordinates
249543, 164598
Date Recorded
04/11/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Two-arch road bridge over river, dated 1840. Part creeper- or ivy-covered drag edged tooled limestone ashlar walls centred on rounded triangular cutwaters having lichen-spotted rounded pyramidal capping with lichen-spotted tooled cut-limestone "Torus" stringcourses supporting parapets having lichen-spotted tooled cut-limestone rounded coping centred on drag edged cut-limestone date stones ("1840"). Pair of segmental arches with drag edged rusticated limestone ashlar voussoirs centred on inscribed drag edged tooled cut-limestone keystones ("1840"). Sited spanning Dinin River with unkempt banks to river.
Appraisal
A bridge 'Erected by JOSEPH WRIGHT [d. 1866] & THOs. MEEHAN [d. 1877]' to designs by Samson Carter (d. 1860), County Surveyor for County Kilkenny (fl. 1834-60), representing an important component of the mid nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of County Kilkenny with the architectural value of the composition confirmed not only by the "sparrow pecked" deep grey limestone demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arches making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the Dinin River.