Overview
Bellakip Bridge is recorded as bridge in Mayo. Two-arch road bridge over river, extant 1838. Creeper- or ivy-covered walls centred on limestone ashlar rounded triangular cutwaters to pier having lichen-covered domed pyramidal capping with overgrown coping to parapets.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Two-arch road bridge over river, extant 1838.
People and work
The saved account records: Creeper- or ivy-covered walls centred on limestone ashlar rounded triangular cutwaters to pier having lichen-covered domed pyramidal capping with overgrown coping to parapets.
How it changed
The saved account records: Pair of segmental arches with limestone ashlar voussoirs.
What survives
The saved account records: Sited spanning Bellakip River with unkempt banks to river.
Why it mattered
Bellakip 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 integral component of the civil engineering heritage of the rural environs of Louisburgh with the architectural value of the composition suggested not only by the construction in unrefined local fieldstone offset by sheer limestone dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arches making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the Bellakip River: meanwhile, a much weathered benchmark remains of additional interest for the connections with cartography and the preparation of maps by the Ordnance Survey (established 1824). This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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