Survey Data
Reg No
12403710
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1925 - 1935
Coordinates
272552, 130368
Date Recorded
09/12/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Five-span bridge over river, built 1927-30; opened 1930, including single-span bascule bridge. Sited spanning River Barrow with unkempt banks to river.
Appraisal
A bridge erected to designs by Alfred Dover Delap (1871-1943) of Dublin (The Irish Times 28th September 1927; Maconchy 1932, 147-98) representing an important component of the early twentieth-century civil engineering heritage of County Kilkenny with the architectural value of the composition, one succeeding the Lemuel Cox (1736-1806)-designed "Mount Garrett Wooden Bridge" (1794) destroyed (1921) during "The Troubles" (1919-23), confirmed not only by the pioneering reinforced concrete construction, but also by the eye-catching bascule bridge based on the "Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge" invented by the Chicago-based engineer William Donald Scherzer (1858-93) and patented (1893) by the Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Company (cf. 50010001; 50010009).