bridge

Five-span concrete road over water bridge, built c.1940. Flat concrete beams carrying carriageway, with square-plan rendered piers and open balustrade to parapet with decorative concrete balusters supporting chamfered concrete copings. Triangular cutwaters. Cement render to piers, chamfered pier caps, cement rendered walls to outer bays. Single tarmacadamed carriageway. Set in rural landscape with hedges to adjacent fields.

Set in a rural landscape, this bridge is still in use to carry vehicles over the River Shiven. As the twentieth century progressed, reinforced concrete became a more viable building material and reduced time and cost for bridge building and began to be more and more common. A simple design of flat concrete beams and rendered piers, this bridge is a good example of the changing approach to bridge construction that came about in Ireland during the middle of the twentieth century as new construction methods became available.