Survey Data
Reg No
40404204
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1850 - 1890
Coordinates
249467, 280974
Date Recorded
15/07/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Single-span limestone road bridge, built c.1870, spanning Upper Inny River, and incorporating remains of earlier bridge. Random-coursed squared and snecked rock-faced spandrels, parapet and coping. Regular rock-faced voussoirs to arch ring with dressed underside and arris, squared rubble barrel on large squared-rubble abutments with impost course and skewback. Flanked by single buttres slanting to base to north-east. Partially-rendered wall to north-east from earlier bridge with segmental arch having irregular limestone voussoirs.
Appraisal
A Board of Works bridge, on the border of counties Cavan and Meath, constructed of rock-faced masonry with impost detail, forming a structure of architectural sophistication in a rural setting, The incorporation of an earlier bridge charts the development of building techniques in bridge construction from simple rubble construction to sharp architectural detail. The reduction to a single arch demonstrates the rationalisation of the water course, typical of arterial drainage schemes of the later nineteenth century.