Survey Data
Reg No
31310303
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Scientific, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1850 - 1860
Coordinates
148625, 276517
Date Recorded
13/01/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Three-arch road bridge over river, built 1855; extant 1893. Part ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked limestone walls centred on triangular cutwaters to piers having pyramidal capping with lichen covered hammered limestone rounded coping to parapets. Series of three segmental arches with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Dalgan River with unkempt banks to river.
Appraisal
A bridge representing an integral component of the mid nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of south County Mayo with the architectural value of the composition, an 'accommodation bridge built [1855] where an old bridge had been removed [1847]'[?] (Twenty-Fourth Report 1855, 153), confirmed not only by the "sparrow pecked" sheer limestone dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arches making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the Dalgan 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).