Survey Data
Reg No
41302007
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1730 - 1770
Coordinates
267505, 335224
Date Recorded
13/10/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Two-arch limestone bridge, built c.1750, carrying road over Blackwater River. Walls of uncoursed rubble with uncapped parapets, segmental arches having punch-finished voussoirs and full-height V-shaped cutwaters on both elevations of central pier. Concrete skirting around base of cutwaters and abutments, rolled steel joist supporting water main punches through arch soffit which has remnants of roughcast render. Battered buttresses reinforcing wing walls on both sides of river. Additional segmental flood arch in wing wall to north-west, parapet over which, along with adjacent roadside wall leading around Presbyterian churchyard, has been rebuilt in stone and cement in recent years. Gently hump-backed bridge.
Appraisal
One of the oldest masonry arch bridge structures in the local area, this crossing which carried one of the main roads from Dublin to Derry and Letterkenny retains its historic appearance despite mid- to late twentieth-century additions and alterations and nineteenth-century embellishments such as buttresses and cutwaters.