Survey Data
Reg No
12402704
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1840 - 1860
Coordinates
246478, 143541
Date Recorded
19/11/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Three-arch rubble stone road bridge over river, c.1850, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier bridge, pre-1840, on site. Random rubble stone walls with limestone ashlar triangular cut-waters to piers, and ivy-clad dressed limestone coping to parapets. Series of three segmental arches with cut-limestone voussoirs, and rubble stone soffits having traces of render over. Sited spanning Kings River with grass banks to river.
Appraisal
An elegantly-composed modest-scale bridge occupying the position of an earlier counterpart on site reputedly having medieval origins. The traditional construction in rubble stone serves to assimilate the bridge pleasantly into the surrounding landscape while refined limestone dressings exhibit high quality stone masonry. Representing an important element of the long-standing civil engineering heritage of County Kilkenny the bridge makes a pleasing visual statement at a crossing spanning the Kings River.