Survey Data

Reg No

15702502


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Technical


Original Use

Bridge


In Use As

Bridge


Date

1845 - 1850


Coordinates

286695, 137627


Date Recorded

21/08/2007


Date Updated

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Description

Three-arch road bridge over river, built 1848. Part creeper- or ivy-covered walls centred on triangular cutwaters to piers to upriver (west) elevation having lichen-spotted domed pyramidal capping with rubble stone coping to parapets. Series of three segmental arches with tooled granite ashlar crow stepped voussoirs centred on tooled cut-granite keystones. Sited spanning Boro River with unkempt banks to river.

Appraisal

A bridge representing an integral component of the civil engineering heritage of County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition suggested not only by the "sparrow pecked" granite dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arches making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the Boro River.