Survey Data
Reg No
22208902
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1855 - 1860
Coordinates
194621, 105980
Date Recorded
21/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch limestone road bridge over Araglin River, dated 1859. Segmental arch with cut-stone voussoirs, dressed stone parapets and flanked by slightly projecting dressed stone piers. Snecked stone walls flanking bridge piers and terminated by cut-stone piers, lower part flared, all piers projecting through parapet. Dressed stone string course carried through arch, bridge piers and parapets, as far as terminating piers, all paraperts having cut-stone coping. Carved limestone date plaque to west parapet. Rubble walling beyond outer piers.
Appraisal
This bridge straddles the border between counties Tipperary and Waterford and is of particularly painstaking design and construction. It shows the skill of the engineers involved in spanning a wide defile with a single arch, and the skill of the stonemasons in the careful cutting and fitting of a variety of stone treatments, including dressed, snecked and cut-stone. The well-constructed parapet walls, punctuated by piers, provide interest to the roadscape, and the bridge is visible from the nearby small road to the south.