Survey Data
Reg No
12401113
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1880 - 1890
Coordinates
259609, 171006
Date Recorded
11/11/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch rubble limestone road bridge over river, dated 1884/6, probably incorporating fabric of earlier bridge, pre-1840, on site. Repaired, c.1950. Random rubble limestone walls with mass-concrete buttress piers, c.1950, and rubble limestone parapets having sections of replacement mass-concrete construction, c.1950. Single elliptical arch with cut-granite voussoirs having cut-granite date stone keystone, and rubble stone soffits having traces of render over. Sited spanning tributary of Dinin River with grass banks to river.
Appraisal
Although modified in the mid twentieth century an elegantly-appointed bridge spanning a tributary of the Dinin River in the centre of Coan (Coon) represents an important element of the late nineteenth-century civil engineering legacy of County Kilkenny. The juxtaposition of rubble stone, cut-granite and later mass-concrete in the construction produces a rustic quality assimilating pleasantly into the surround semi-rural landscape.