Bellacorick Bridge

The saved account records: Four-arch bridge over river, built 1820-1

The saved account records: Part repointed coursed cut-limestone walls centred on tooled limestone ashlar rounded triangular cutwaters having domed pyramidal capping with cut-limestone stringcourses supporting parapets having tooled cut-limestone coping centred on rope twist-detailed cut-limestone date stone ("1820").

The saved account records: Series of four elliptical arches between cast-iron "Pattress" tie plates with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs.

The saved account records: Sited spanning Owenmore River with unkempt banks to river.

Bellacorick Bridge matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A bridge representing an important component of the early nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of County Mayo with the architectural value of the composition, one designed by William Bald (c.1789-1857) 'BY ORDER OF THE GRAND JURY...RIGHT HON DENIS BROWNE [1763-1828] FOREMAN', confirmed not only by the construction in a multi-toned limestone with blue-grey dressings producing a mild polychromatic palette, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arches making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the Owenmore River: meanwhile, a much-weathered benchmark remains of additional interest for the… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.