Survey Data
Reg No
15701140
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
315006, 154142
Date Recorded
08/02/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch road bridge over river, extant 1840. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed or snecked rubble stone battered walls between lichen-spotted battered piers with cut-granite stringcourses supporting parapets having cut-granite chamfered coping. Single segmental arch with lichen-spotted granite ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Owenavorragh River with unkempt banks to river.
Appraisal
A bridge representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of north County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one sometimes known as "Ashton Bridge", suggested not only by the construction in a rough cut fieldstone offset by silver-grey granite dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arch making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the Owenavorragh River.