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Bridge in Ballyhugh, County Galway (30341048)

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Bridge in Ballyhugh
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30341048
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Three-arch limestone bridge, built c.1820, over Gort River. Snecked cut limestone walls, segmental arches with cut-stone voussoirs, carved U-cutwaters to north-east elevation and V-cutwater to south-west elevation. Dressed stone parapet walls topped with curved cut-stone copings.
This limestone bridge displays skilled craftsmanship and engineering. Dating from the early nineteenth century, during an era of increasing prosperity for Gort, the bridge would have been an appropriately fine structure heralding the entrance to the main street of a prosperous market town. The curved copings to the parapet walls add interest to the streetscape.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30341048

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Picture notes
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Computer-made picture. It does not show this monument.
  • Computer-made picture. It does not show this playground.
  • dougf, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Lucarelli, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Dr Charles Nelson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Dr Charles Nelson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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