Survey Data
Reg No
31305302
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1822 - 1829
Coordinates
56068, 304332
Date Recorded
07/03/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch road bridge over stream, completed 1829. Sited spanning stream with unkempt embankments to stream.
Appraisal
A bridge representing an important component of the early nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of Achill Island with the architectural value of the composition, one recalling the Alexander Nimmo (1783-1832)-designed Glennanean Bridge (1829-30), Coill an Locháin [Cuillaloughaun] (see 31306601), confirmed by the "pointed" profile of the arch making a dramatic visual statement at a crossing over a minor stream 'scarcely to be tracked to the sea' (Barrow 1836, 32).