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What is recorded here

Three-arch road bridge over river, built 1847. Part creeper- or ivy-covered walls centred on creeper- or ivy-covered tapered piers with corbelled stepped stringcourses supporting parapets having rubble stone rounded soldier course coping. Series of three round arches with lichen-spotted voussoirs centred on lichen-spotted keystones. Sited spanning Owenavorragh River with wooded embankments to river.

A bridge erected to a design by James Barry Farrell (1810-93), County Surveyor for County Wexford (appointed 1840; retired 1891), representing an important component of the mid nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of north County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one recalling the Farrell-designed Corbally Bridge (1854), Tomnafunshoge (see 15702029); and Carrigmannon Bridge (1844), Killurin (see 15703704), confirmed not only by the sheer dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the lofty "sweep" of the arches making a dramatic visual statement at a crossing over the Owenavorragh River: meanwhile, a discreet benchmark remains of additional interest for the connections with cartography and the preparation of maps by the Ordnance Survey (established 1824).

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