Survey Data
Reg No
15702405
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Scientific, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1842 - 1844
Coordinates
282985, 138623
Date Recorded
22/08/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch road bridge over river, extant 1844. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed or snecked rubble stone walls with lichen-spotted cut-granite stringcourses supporting parapets having lichen-spotted cut-granite segmental coping. Single segmental arch with lichen-spotted granite ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Boro River with unkempt banks to river.
Appraisal
A bridge representing an integral component of the mid nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one forming part of 'the new line of road lately formed…to Polmonty [sic] bridge' (Fraser 1844, 187), confirmed not only by the 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 Boro River: meanwhile, a discreet benchmark remains of additional interest for the connections with cartography and the preparation of maps by the Ordnance Survey (established 1824).