Bridge in Bragan, County Monaghan

What is recorded here

Bridge in Bragan puts a hump in the road just to cross a river called Mountain Water. Even the water has come down off the mountain, but the bridge insists you do a small one yourself.

Single-arch humpback bridge, built c.1810, carrying road over Mountain Water. Three-centred-arch with rusticated stone voussoirs and gunnelled soffit. Coursed roughly squared rubble limestone parapet and abutment walls. Render coping to parapet walls. Shallow masonry buttresses flanking arch to each elevation.

The coursed rubble walls of this bridge contrast pleasingly with the gunnelled soffit of the arch, while the fine voussoirs and supporting buttresses add architectural interest to this otherwise modest bridge, combining to create an attractive and picturesque feature in the landscape.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 41400201

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