Survey Data
Reg No
31311007
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Scientific, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1700 - 1838
Coordinates
123329, 268657
Date Recorded
04/01/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Six-arch road bridge over river, extant 1838. "Repaired". Repointed coursed rubble limestone walls centred on triangular cutwaters to piers to upriver (east) elevation on shuttered mass concrete battered bases having pyramidal capping with lichen-covered rounded coping to parapets. Series of six camber arches with cut-limestone voussoirs. Sited spanning Robe River with unkempt grass banks to river.
Appraisal
A bridge representing an integral component of the civil engineering heritage of south County Mayo with the architectural value of the composition suggested not only by the traditional construction in unrefined local fieldstone offset by limestone dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the gentle "sweep" of the arches making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the Robe River: meanwhile, a much weathered benchmark remains of additional interest for the connections with cartography and the preparation of maps by the Ordnance Survey (established 1824).