Survey Data
Reg No
11822058
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
279917, 195513
Date Recorded
30/01/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Two-arch rubble stone road bridge over river, c.1800, with triangular cut-water to south and rubble stone voussoirs. Random rubble stone walls with rubble stone coping. Rendered triangular cut-waters. Two round arches. Rubble stone voussoirs. Rubble stone soffits with render over. Sited spanning River Greese with grass banks to river.
Appraisal
This bridge is an attractive rubble stone bridge that forms a subtle feature on the River Greese 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 traditional stone masonry. 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 century.