Survey Data
Reg No
11801011
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1830 - 1870
Coordinates
276355, 239389
Date Recorded
26/06/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch cut-limestone road bridge over river, c.1850, with dressed stone voussoirs and rubble stone coping to parapet walls. Coursed snecked limestone walls. Rubble stone coping to parapet walls. Single segmental arch. Cut-stone voussoirs. Rubble stone soffits with traces of render over. Sited spanning Fear English River. Grass banks to river.
Appraisal
Fear English Bridge is a fine stone bridge that forms a subtle feature on the Fear English River and is one of a group of bridges on the section of that river that passes through County Kildare. The construction of the arch that has retained its original shape is of technical and engineering merit. The bridge exhibits good quality stone masonry and fine, crisp joints. The bridge is of considerable historical and social significance as a reminder of the road network development in Ireland in the mid nineteenth century.