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Bridge in Cahergowan or Summerfield

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Bridge in Cahergowan or Summerfield
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Bridge in Cahergowan or Summerfield brought nine arches to the relationship; the river was diverted away. It’s still standing in Claregalway like a man holding nine umbrellas after his wife has emigrated to Spain.

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Nine-arch road bridge, built c.1710, now bypassed by recent bridge. Central arch flanked by arches of decreasing sizes. Coursed hammer-dressed limestone walls, with roughly squared and snecked rubble limestone parapets having copings of rubble stone set on edge, and with section of rounded coping to east parapet. Round arches with draughted and pecked limestone voussoirs to arch rings. Square-plan random rubble piers to either end of east elevation. Set beside Galway-Tuam road with flight of seven steps to south.
This bridge ceased to be used in the mid-eighteenth century when the river it crossed was diverted. Restoration work was carried out to the stonework of the east elevation and carriageway in 2003. Set beside the main Galway to Tuam road, the bridge stands as a major landmark in the village of Claregalway.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30407011

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Charles Mount/ Cmount, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Irimurz, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Graham Horn, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; Maker shown on the Wikimedia Commons file page · Public domain; Robert Linsdell from St. Andrews, Canada, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0; N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Sharonlflynn, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0

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