Survey Data
Reg No
11804032
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
300439, 235831
Date Recorded
12/02/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Three-arch cut-stone road bridge over river, c.1800, with cut-stone rounded cut-waters to north, cut-stone voussoirs and cut-stone coping. Renovated, c.1980. Coursed cut-stone walls. Cut-stone rounded cut-waters to north. Replacement render, c.1980, to piers to south. Cut-stone coping to parapet walls. Three segmental arches. Cut-stone voussoirs. Rubble stone soffits with render over. Sited spanning Rye Water.
Appraisal
Rye Bridge is a fine cut-stone bridge that forms an attractive feature on the Rye Water and is one of a group of bridges on the section of that river that passes through County Kildare. The construction of the arches that have retained their 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 late eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries.