Survey Data
Reg No
31305601
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Scientific, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1825 - 1835
Coordinates
80010, 300187
Date Recorded
10/12/2010
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch road bridge over river, built 1829-30; extant 1838. Part tuck pointed coursed cut-sandstone walls between coursed cut-sandstone piers with hammered sandstone rounded coping to parapets. Single segmental arch with drag edged rusticated limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning An Cartún [Cartron River] with unkempt banks to river.
Appraisal
A bridge erected to a design by Alexander Nimmo (1783-1832), Engineer to the Western District (appointed 1822; replaced 1831), regarded as an important component of the early nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of Contae Mhaigh Eo [County Mayo] with the architectural value of the composition confirmed not only by the construction in a ruby-coloured sandstone offset by "sparrow pecked" sheer limestone dressings producing a mild polychromatic palette, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arch making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over An Cartún [the Cartron River]: meanwhile, a discreet benchmark remains of additional interest for the connections with cartography and the preparation of maps by the Ordnance Survey (established 1824).