Survey Data
Reg No
40903005
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1760 - 1840
Coordinates
249217, 433253
Date Recorded
25/10/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch bridge carrying road over the Pollen River, built c. 1800. Round-headed arch with cut stone voussoirs with smooth rendered soffit. Rubble stone piers mounted on rubble stone buttresses. Rubble stone parapet with large roughly squared stone coping. Double carriageway paved with tarmacadam, pipes located to both parapets.
Appraisal
A finely built small road bridge with good quality stone masonry on the road lining Carrowkeel to Carndonagh. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map of c. 1837 as ‘Beggars Bridge’ and has been an important crossing point over the Pollan River for at least two centuries.