Survey Data

Reg No

20903907


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Scientific, Technical


Original Use

Bridge


In Use As

Bridge


Date

1775 - 1825


Coordinates

132823, 92458


Date Recorded

03/10/2006


Date Updated

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Description

Two-arch bridge over river, c.1800.  Ivy-covered uncoursed rough cut rubble sandstone walls with rendered rounded coping to benchmark-inscribed parapets.  Pair of round arches on sandstone ashlar triangular cutwaters having pyramidal capping with sandstone ashlar voussoirs.  Sited spanning Owenbaun River with unkempt banks to river.

Appraisal

A bridge representing an integral component of the built heritage of County Cork with the elegant arches making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over Owenbaun River.  The parapets show much evidence of repeated partial reconstruction but retain a benchmark of interest for its connections with cartography and the preparation of maps by the Ordnance Survey (established 1824).