Survey Data
Reg No
11805079
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Previous Name
Celbridge Abbey
Original Use
Foot bridge
In Use As
Foot bridge
Date
1760 - 1790
Coordinates
297002, 232559
Date Recorded
05/02/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Two-arch rubble stone footbridge over canalised section of river, c.1775, with rubble stone pier, rubbles tone voussoirs and cut-stone coping. Random rubble stone walls. Rubble stone rounded pier to south-east. Rubble stone parapet walls. Cut-stone coping. Two elliptical arches. Rubble stone voussoirs. Rubble stone soffits with render over. Sited spanning canalised section of river leading to River Liffey to south-east. Sluice, c.1800, to north-west retaining early sluice gates and original iron mechanisms.
Appraisal
This bridge is an attractive rubble stone footbridge that forms an attractive feature on the canalised section of the River Liffey. The construction of the arches that have retained their original shape is of technical and engineering merit. Also of technical interest is the sluice to north-west that retains early sluice gates and most of its original mechanisms. The bridge exhibits good quality masonry to the construction of the walls. The bridge is of social and historical significance, having been built as part of the planned Celbridge Abbey estate.