Ballylinch Bridge

Five-arch rubble limestone road bridge over river, c.1775, with five-arch section over flood plain to west, and two-arch section over flood plain to east. Random rubble limestone walls with tooled limestone ashlar triangular cut-waters to piers having cut-limestone coping, and cut-limestone coping to parapets having rubble limestone coping to parapets to sections over flood plain. Series of five segmental arches with limestone ashlar voussoirs, and dressed rubble limestone soffits having render over. Series of five segmental arches to west with pair of segmental arches to east having dressed limestone voussoirs, and rubble stone soffits having render over. Sited spanning River Nore with grass banks to river forming flood plain.

Representing an important element of the mid to late eighteenth-century civil engineering heritage of County Kilkenny a middle-size bridge exhibits two distinct architectural treatments: the central portion forming an appealing landmark spanning the River Nore incorporates elegantly-profiled openings together with refined dressings displaying high quality stone masonry while those sections spanning the surrounding flood plain are imbued with a somewhat rustic quality on account of the construction in unrefined stone with scarcely-dressed detailing. Possibly originally built by the Earl of Carrick (n. d.) of nearby Mount Juliet (House) (12402805/KK-28-05) the bridge remains an important element of the built legacy of the locality.