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Ballyvulhane Bridge

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Ballyvulhane Bridge
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Three-arch road bridge, built c. 1820; rebuilt 1922, over Morningstar River. Coursed rubble limestone walls, with parapet walls, with cut copings. Rendered parapet wall to rebuilt section with date plaque having incised lettering. Tooled stone plinths to piers. V-cutwaters to upstream elevations. Round-headed arches flanking recent flat arch with concrete supports. Tooled stone voussoirs to round-headed arches.
A bridge whose round arches make a pleasing impression at a crossing over the Morningstar River. The bridge was rebuilt (1822) to designs by Robert Davison (1872-1951), County Surveyor for the Eastern Division of County Limerick (appointed 1914), possibly following an attack during the Civil War (1922-3), and a plaque is inscribed: "BALLYVOLANE [sic]/BRIDGE/REBUILT/1922/ROBERT DAVISON/Co SURVEYOR".

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