Survey Data
Reg No
14403601
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Scientific
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1840 - 1845
Coordinates
273404, 252686
Date Recorded
14/05/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch bridge over river, built 1844. Part ivy-covered snecked limestone walls with tooled cut-limestone stringcourses supporting rock faced limestone ashlar parapets having margined tooled cut-limestone chamfered coping. Single segmental arch with margined rock faced limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning River Boyne with unkempt banks to river.
Appraisal
A bridge designed by Richard Armstrong Gray (1818-99) of Dublin (Nineteenth Report from the Board of Public Works 1851, 116) representing an important component of the mid nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of County Meath with the architectural value of the composition, one erected 'UNDER THE ACTS 5TH & 6TH VIC CAP 89 [Drainage (Ireland) Act 1842]', confirmed not only by the robust rock faced surface finish demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arch making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the River Boyne.