Ballymore Bridge, County Kildare

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Six-arch bridge over river, built 1784. Damaged, 1868. Roughcast coursed rubble stone walls centred on granite ashlar triangular cutwaters to piers having pyramidal capping with cut-granite (north) or schist soldier course (south) coping to parapets centred on lichen-covered benchmark-inscribed plaque. Series of six…

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A bridge representing an important component of the civil engineering heritage of County Kildare with the architectural value of the composition confirmed not only by the silver-grey granite dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arches making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the River Liffey: meanwhile, aspects of the composition illustrate the partial reconstruction of the bridge following 'a most destructive flood [which] came down from the River Liffey from the Wicklow mountains...carrying away the greater portion of the bridge close to the factory at Ballymore Eustace' (Leinster Journal 11th December 1868).

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11820003

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