Survey Data
Reg No
13900741
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1790 - 1810
Coordinates
302990, 309693
Date Recorded
13/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Four-arch bridge over river, c.1800. Repointed coursed rubble stone walls with cut-limestone coping to parapets. Series of four elliptical arches between tooled limestone ashlar triangular cutwaters with tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Castletown River.
Appraisal
A bridge representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of the rural environs of Dundalk with the elegant arches showing silver-grey limestone dressings making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the Castletown River just below its confluence with the Kilcurry River. NOTE: Reverend Elias Thackeray (1771-1854) described Saint John's Bridge as 'neat and in good order but built in a situation peculiarly awkward' (Statistical Survey of Dundalk 1816).