Survey Data
Reg No
30407011
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
Date
1700 - 1720
Coordinates
137288, 233238
Date Recorded
30/10/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Nine-arch road bridge, built c.1710, now bypassed by recent bridge. Central arch flanked by arches of decreasing sizes. Coursed hammer-dressed limestone walls, with roughly squared and snecked rubble limestone parapets having copings of rubble stone set on edge, and with section of rounded coping to east parapet. Round arches with draughted and pecked limestone voussoirs to arch rings. Square-plan random rubble piers to either end of east elevation. Set beside Galway-Tuam road with flight of seven steps to south.
Appraisal
This bridge ceased to be used in the mid-eighteenth century when the river it crossed was diverted. Restoration work was carried out to the stonework of the east elevation and carriageway in 2003. Set beside the main Galway to Tuam road, the bridge stands as a major landmark in the village of Claregalway.