Ballinvarry Bridge, County Kilkenny

What is recorded here

A driver might reach Ballinvarry Bridge in Ballinvarry English just as another cart starts across its single arch over the stream. Both would slow, each hoping the other had already decided to give way, while the horses made their own views plain.

Single-arch rubble stone road bridge over stream, c.1825. Random rubble stone walls with dressed rubble stone coping to parapets. Single round arch with dressed rubble stone voussoirs, and rubble stone soffits. Sited spanning tributary of River Barrow with rubble limestone retaining walls to stream.

Exhibiting a traditional construction in locally-sourced stone a picturesque bridge representing a small-scale artefact of the transport heritage of County Kilkenny makes a pleasing visual impression in a rural setting.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12403303

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