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Beggars Bridge

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Beggars Bridge
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Single-arch bridge carrying road over the Pollen River, built c. 1800. Round-headed arch with cut stone voussoirs with smooth rendered soffit. Rubble stone piers mounted on rubble stone buttresses. Rubble stone parapet with large roughly squared stone coping. Double carriageway paved with tarmacadam, pipes located to both parapets.
A finely built small road bridge with good quality stone masonry on the road lining Carrowkeel to Carndonagh. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map of c. 1837 as ‘Beggars Bridge’ and has been an important crossing point over the Pollan River for at least two centuries.

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Photo: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage · Website use allowed for educational or private purposes with source credit