Ballinavary Bridge

Single-arch road bridge over river, dated 1865. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed or snecked limestone walls between lichen-covered coursed or snecked limestone battered piers with lichen-covered rough hewn limestone solider course coping to parapets centred on lichen-spotted cut-limestone date stone ("1865"). Single segmental arch with lichen-spotted margined rock faced limestone ashlar voussoirs centred on margined rock faced cut-limestone keystones. Sited spanning Boro River with unkempt banks to river.

A bridge representing an integral component of the mid nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one attributable to James Barry Farrell (1810-93), County Surveyor for County Wexford (appointed 1840; retired 1891), confirmed not only by the robust rock faced dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arch making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the Boro River: meanwhile, a benchmark remains of additional interest for the connections with cartography and the preparation of maps by the Ordnance Survey (established 1824).