Survey Data
Reg No
30402404
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1840 - 1860
Coordinates
84079, 254339
Date Recorded
26/08/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch road limestone bridge, built c.1850, spanning An Mhoing Bhuí [Muingboy]. Segmental arch with roughly dressed rubble stone voussoirs, rubble stone walls and gunnelled soffits. Stepped concrete buttress to south end of north-east elevation. Rubble limestone parapets with coping stones at right angles to parapets, and with stepped return walls to ends.
Appraisal
This is a good and quite intact example of mid-nineteenth-century engineering that forms a vital transport and communication link between the Maumturk and Twelve Pin Mountains. The bridge is aesthetically pleasing with the roughly squared voussoirs contrasting with the rubble walling and returns. It is comparable to other bridges in the area with the theme of return walls also providing buttressing.