Bridge in Ballylee (kiltartan by), County Galway

What is recorded here

Bridge in Ballylee (kiltartan by), beside the tower associated with Yeats, had pointed stone cutwaters added after its four arches were built. Living next to a poet is grand until you have to explain that ‘go gently, lovely river’ isn’t stopping the river.

Four-arch limestone bridge, built c.1825, carrying road over Streamstown River. Round arches with cut-stone voussoirs. Rubble walls and parapet walls with rendered copings. Rendered walling and V-cutwaters to upstream (south) elevation.

This bridge, together with the nearby tower house and thatched house form an important group of structures associated with the poet W.B. Yeats. The simple round arches create a pleasing effect, while the later addition of cutwaters shows the development of civil engineering techniques and stands as a testament to the skills of local craftsmen.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30412303

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