Arklow Bridge, County Wicklow

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What is recorded here

Nineteen-arch bridge over river, built 1754-6. Remodelled, 1959. Repaired, 1982. Repointed coursed rubble stone walls between triangular cutwater piers on mass concrete plinths with replacement tubular steel railings on reinforced concrete deck. Series of nineteen segmental arches with hammered or rough cut rubble stone voussoirs. Sited spanning Avoca River.

A bridge erected by Andrew Noble (d. 1759) representing an important component of the eighteenth-century civil engineering heritage of County Wicklow (Cox and Gould 1998, 97).

The story behind this place

Repointed coursed rubble stone walls between triangular cutwater piers on mass concrete plinths with replacement tubular steel railings on reinforced concrete deck.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 16322046

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