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Brickeens Bridge

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Brickeens Bridge
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Three-arch road bridge over river, under construction 1841; extant 1858. "Repaired". Part repointed coursed or snecked limestone walls centred on drag edged tooled limestone ashlar rounded triangular cutwaters to piers having domed pyramidal capping with drag edged tooled cut-limestone stringcourses supporting…

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Three-arch road bridge over river, under construction 1841; extant 1858. "Repaired". Part repointed coursed or snecked limestone walls centred on drag edged tooled limestone ashlar rounded triangular cutwaters to piers having domed pyramidal capping with drag edged tooled cut-limestone stringcourses supporting parapets having lichen-covered hammered limestone rounded coping. Series of three segmental arches with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Robe River with unkempt banks to river.
A bridge representing an integral component of the mid nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of south County Mayo (Irish Penny Journal 1841 I, 333) with the architectural value of the composition, one recalling the Alexander Nimmo (1783-1832)-designed Annies Bridge (1822-6), Rinaneel (see 31310014), confirmed not only by the "sparrow pecked" 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 Robe River.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 31310205

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Connacht GAA; photographer not stated, connachtgaa.ie
  • Harry Murphy / Sportsfile, via Western People, www.westernpeople.ie
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • dougf, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Garry Dickinson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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