Survey Data
Reg No
15700402
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Scientific, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1775 - 1785
Coordinates
291709, 160934
Date Recorded
26/10/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Five-arch hump back road bridge over river, built 1780. Part creeper- or ivy-covered walls centred on triangular cutwaters to piers having moss-covered pyramidal capping with rubble stone soldier course coping to parapets centred on rusticated cut-limestone plaque ("1938"). Series of five round arches with granite ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Derry River with unkempt grass banks to river.
Appraisal
A bridge representing an important component of the later eighteenth-century civil engineering heritage of north County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one recalling the contemporary Scarawalsh Bridge (1790; see 15702002) and thereby attributable to the Oriel Brothers of Hampshire, confirmed not only by the silver-grey granite dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arches making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the Derry River: meanwhile, a discreet benchmark remains of additional interest for the connections with cartography and the preparation of maps by the Ordnance Survey (established 1824).