Survey Data
Reg No
22208715
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Scientific, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1778 - 1840
Coordinates
198963, 113401
Date Recorded
29/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Four-arch bridge over river, extant 1840. Roughcast walls centred on triangular cutwaters to piers having pyramidal capping with lichen-covered cut-granite coping to benchmark-inscribed parapets. Series of four segmental arches with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs centred on cut-limestone keystones. Sited spanning River Duag with unkempt banks to river.
Appraisal
A bridge representing an integral component of the civil engineering heritage of County Tipperary with the architectural value of the composition suggested not only by the two-tone dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arches making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the River Duag: meanwhile, a discreet benchmark remains of additional interest for the connections with cartography and the preparation of maps by the Ordnance Survey (established 1824). NOTE: The bridge is not featured in "Maps of the Roads of Ireland" (1778) by Taylor and Skinner and it is possible that it was put in place when the nearby church was reconstructed as 'a neat modern edifice of hewn stone, towards the erection of which the late Board of First Fruits granted a loan of £1000, in 1819' (Lewis 1837 II, 552).