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Bridge in Glear
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Single-arch skew canal bridge, built c.1840, carrying road over Ulster Canal. Round arch with dressed stone voussoirs. Towpath to south abutment. Squared random rubble stone to spandrel and parapet walls, dressed stone platband over arch ring and dressed stone copings to parapets. Parapet walls splayed to each end.…

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Single-arch skew canal bridge, built c.1840, carrying road over Ulster Canal. Round arch with dressed stone voussoirs. Towpath to south abutment. Squared random rubble stone to spandrel and parapet walls, dressed stone platband over arch ring and dressed stone copings to parapets. Parapet walls splayed to each end. West parapet wall broken and replaced with steel bars. Sides overgrown.
Although this bridge is somewhat overgrown and in poor condition, skilled craftsmanship is evident in the tooled stone voussoirs and copings, which greatly enliven the bridge. Linking Lough Neagh with Upper Lough Erne, this section of the Ulster canal opened in 1841 and was intended to provide a means of transport for passengers and bulk produce, thus aiding industry and the economy in the area. This piece of canal infrastructure is reminiscent of the industrial and social history of County Monaghan.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 41401247

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Alvesgaspar, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Computer-made picture. It does not show this playground.
  • Computer-made picture. It does not show this garden.
  • Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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