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Ballyalbany Bridge

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Ballyalbany Bridge
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What is recorded here

Two-arch limestone bridge, built c.1750, carrying road over Blackwater River. Walls of uncoursed rubble with uncapped parapets, segmental arches having punch-finished voussoirs and full-height V-shaped cutwaters on both elevations of central pier. Concrete skirting around base of cutwaters and abutments, rolled steel joist supporting water main punches through arch soffit which has remnants of roughcast render. Battered buttresses reinforcing wing walls on both sides of river. Additional segmental flood arch in wing wall to north-west, parapet over which, along with adjacent roadside wall leading around Presbyterian churchyard, has been rebuilt in stone and cement in recent years. Gently hump-backed bridge.
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