Survey Data
Reg No
31311806
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1845 - 1855
Coordinates
118108, 264881
Date Recorded
13/07/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch road bridge over river, built 1849-50; extant 1894. Part ivy-covered tuck pointed rock faced limestone ashlar walls between drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar battered piers with drag edged tooled cut-limestone flush stringcourses supporting parapets having drag edged tooled cut-limestone coping. Single segmental arch with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar radiating voussoirs centred on drag edged rock faced cut-limestone keystones. Sited spanning Robe River with unkempt banks to river.
Appraisal
A bridge identified as an integral component of the mid nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of south County Mayo on account of the connections with the county-wide programme of famine relief drainage works completed under the Drainage (Ireland) Act, 1846, with the architectural value of the composition, one recalling the so-called "Barrack Bridge" (1849-52) nearby (see 31215010), confirmed not only by the robust rock faced surface finish offset by "sparrow pecked" sheer limestone dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arch making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the Robe River.