Survey Data
Reg No
14904001
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Scientific, Social, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1840 - 1850
Coordinates
255373, 240797
Date Recorded
21/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch masonry road bridge, erected 1849, carries the Garr to Ballinabrackey road over the River Mongagh at the boundary of Counties Offaly and Meath. Earlier eighteenth-century bridge with three smaller arches. Random rubble to earlier bridge. Arches semicircular profile. Single-arch bridge of squared limestone with rusticated quoins. Segmental profile arch with rusticated limestone voussoirs. Roughly dressed limestone spandrels. Roughly dressed coping with rounded tops. Dressed string course.
Appraisal
The present single-arch bridge spans the redirected river and was completed by the Board of Works as part of the Boyne drainage scheme. The earlier bridge spanned the original route of the river. The variation of building techniques and finishes of material between the different periods of construction make this bridge both architecturally and technically significant.