Survey Data
Reg No
12402203
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1865 - 1885
Coordinates
239737, 147684
Date Recorded
09/11/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch rubble limestone road bridge over river, c.1875, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier two-arch road bridge, pre-1840, on site. Random squared rubble limestone walls with rendered coping to parapets. Single camber arch with tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs, and squared rubble limestone soffits having remains of render over. Sited spanning tributary of Munster River with grass banks to river.
Appraisal
A gracefully-composed low-slung bridge making a pleasing, if subtle visual statement at a crossing over a tributary of the Munster River. The construction in locally-sourced limestone produces a mono-chromatic palette while refined dressings including the voussoirs display high quality stone masonry. Occupying the position on an earlier counterpart indicated on archival editions of the Ordnance Survey the bridge represents an important small-scale artefact of the mid to late nineteenth-century civil engineering legacy of County Kilkenny.