Bridge in Ballycahill, County Galway

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What is recorded here

Single-arch limestone bridge, built c.1860, carrying road over Kilcrow River. Hammer-dressed ashlar parapet walls, cut-stone string course, and segmental arch with dressed voussoirs and keystone. Mill pond with sluices upstream and stone-lined river channel downstream.

While of simple single-arch construction this bridge shows skilled workmanship in the combination of hammer-dressed and cut limestone masonry. The bridge forms part of a small-scale milling complex with the former corn mill, mill pond, sluices and mill owner’s house immediately to the north.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30411703

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