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Ardbear Bridge

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Ardbear Bridge
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Ardbear Bridge has two arches for the tide entering Ardbear Salt Lake, which is generous treatment for water that never stays. In it comes, out it goes, back again six hours later. You’d swear it was trying to leave an Irish wedding.

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Rubble limestone road bridge, built c.1820, built in form of causeway and having two widely separated arches to allow travel of water. Situated at entrance to tidal Adbear Salt Lake. Segmental arches have dressed limestone voussoirs and limestone blockwork to flanks, and battered rubble limestone walls. Rubble-stone parapet walls with recent concrete copings.
This road bridge is well constructed with battered walls to provide extra reinforcement against the constant changing forces exerted by the tides that enter Ardbear Salt Lake. The bridge formed part of Alexander Nimmo's coastal roads scheme that linked Ardbear with Ballinaboy and on to Tombola, designed to open up Connemara and assist in the development of its towns, especially John D'Arcy's new town of Clifden.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30403513

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Jonathan Wilkins, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; Newbert12, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Mac McCarron, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Drow69, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Keith Salvesen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Maker named on the Wikimedia Commons picture page · Public domain; Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Ian Capper, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Nigel Thompson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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