Survey Data
Reg No
15609014
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1860 - 1865
Coordinates
306374, 152228
Date Recorded
08/03/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch bridge over river, built 1863. Snecked rock faced rubble stone walls between battered abutment walls with cut-granite chamfered stringcourses supporting parapets having cut-granite chamfered coping. Single segmental arch with margined rock faced granite ashlar voussoirs centred on margined rock faced cut-granite keystones. Sited spanning Bann River with wooded banks to river.
Appraisal
A bridge representing an important component of the mid nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition suggested not only by the rock faced surface finish demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arch making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the Bann River. NOTE: Milshoge Bridge was built in connection with the development of the adjacent Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway (DWWR) line opened (1863) by the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway (DWWR) Company when the road over the Bann River was raised and realigned to bypass an eighteenth-century bridge marked on the Ordnance Survey County Wexford Sheet 16 (1841). An earlier design proposal illustrated on a contract drawing titled "D.W. & W.R. Extension – Bann River Bridge No. 2" shows a bridge of two arches with a sloped deck following the slight gradient of the site [Irish Rail Archive DWWR 27].