Survey Data
Reg No
40401629
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1730 - 1770
Coordinates
253348, 311562
Date Recorded
13/06/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Four-arch limestone road bridge over Annalee River, built c.1750, with pronounced humped deck, pedestrian refuges and smaller side arch. Elliptical-headed main arches and round-headed smaller arch, all with roughly dressed voussoirs. Random-rubble spandrels, cutwaters and parapet. Three V-cutwaters on downstream elevation carried up to parapet to form pedestrian refuges on the bridge deck.
Appraisal
A finely composed well-proportioned road bridge of an early date, built entirely of rubble stone, with a humped deck and pedestrian refuges that are typical of its time. Typical of landlord-sponsored Grand Jury projects the bridge forms part of a road along the western edge of Rathkenny Demesne, and may have been designed to be seen from the house. The bridge is a relatively rare example of an eighteenth-century bridge, many having been replaced in improvement schemes since the nineteenth century. Interestingly, it is of similar design to Ballyhaise Bridge.