Survey Data
Reg No
16400901
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Scientific, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1820 - 1840
Coordinates
294656, 208447
Date Recorded
07/08/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch road bridge over the River Liffey, built in c.1830 to designs by Alexander Nimmo. The bridge rises from rocks either at side of the gorge and is constructed in rubble with the large pointed arch encased with a prominent moulded voussoirs. Either side of the arch (to both faces of the bridge) are canted projections which rise through and above the parapets to form crenellated refuges. The outer faces of the refuges are clad with decorative stone panels. The parapets themselves are in rubble with dressed coping, however much of the eastern parapet (including its refuges) is a late 20th-century reconstruction.
Appraisal
Despite modern work to the eastern parapet this bridge is perhaps the most distinctive structure of its type in the whole county and an important piece of engineering in its own right.