Survey Data
Reg No
30410001
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
Date
1825 - 1830
Coordinates
188893, 225196
Date Recorded
18/11/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch limestone canal bridge, built c.1828, formerly carrying road over the Ballinasloe branch of Grand Canal, now disused. Elliptical arch with ashlar soffit and tooled voussoirs. Splayed parapet walls, rubble stone to road elevations, dressed snecked stone to canal elevations, with cut-stone curved string course and coping. Square-profile tapering piers to north-east end, rebuilt piers to south-west end. Dressed snecked stone walls. Dressed and cut-stone embankments to canal.
Appraisal
Built under the charge of engineer and surveyor, Hamilton Hartley Killaly (1800-74), this canal bridge is of evident technical merit, with a sufficiently high arch to allow the passage of barges below. The iconic design with the splayed parapet walls and tapering piers is seen throughout the route of the Grand Canal, which provided a valuable trade and transport route from Dublin to Ballinasloe. The precisely cut stone with the curving string course shows the skill of nineteenth-century stonemasons.