Survey Data
Reg No
15702029
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Scientific, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1850 - 1855
Coordinates
301513, 140113
Date Recorded
13/08/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Three-arch road bridge over river, dated 1854. Part creeper- or ivy-covered walls centred on creeper- or ivy-covered tapered piers with cut-granite stringcourses supporting parapets having lichen-covered cut-granite "saddleback" coping centred on cut-limestone date stone ("MDCCCLIV [1854]") in benchmark-inscribed cut-granite surround. Series of three round arches with lichen-spotted rusticated granite ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Ballyedmond River with wooded embankments to stream.
Appraisal
A bridge erected to a design by James Barry Farrell (1810-93), County Surveyor for County Wexford (appointed 1840; retired 1891), representing an important component of the mid nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one recalling the Farrell-designed Ballinatray Bridge (1847), Ballinatray Lower (see 15611001); and Carrigmannon Bridge (1844), Killurin (see 15703704), confirmed not only by the silver-grey granite dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the lofty "sweep" of the arches making a dramatic visual statement at a ravine-like crossing over the minor Ballyedmond River: meanwhile, a benchmark remains of additional interest for the connections with cartography and the preparation of maps by the Ordnance Survey (established 1824).