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The walls are only the start of this story. Finely executed, the elegant articulation of the arches together with their flanking walls alludes to a continuous arcade marching across the channel.

Triple-arch hump-back road bridge, built 1803, over Belvelly Channel. Rubble limestone construction, comprising three-centred arch flanked by round-headed arches and series of diminishing blind round-headed arches, all having ashlar voussoirs, some with dropped cut limestone keystones. Dressed limestone copings to parapet walls and tooled cut limestone V-cutwaters to both elevations.

Finely executed, the elegant articulation of the arches together with their flanking walls alludes to a continuous arcade marching across the channel.

Historic bridge connecting Cobh with Foaty Island and the mainland. Finely executed, the elegant articulation of the arches together with their flanking walls alludes to a continuous arcade marching across the channel. This attention to detail and aesthetic composition points to the highly skilled construction methods employed in the eighteenth century.

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Finely executed, the elegant articulation of the arches together with their flanking walls alludes to a continuous arcade marching across the channel.

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