Bridge in Coolnamony Lower, County Laois

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What is recorded here

Over River Glenlahan in mountain valley. Small narrow single-eyed humpbacked bridge (Wth 2.85m) which gives access to seventeenth century house (LA002-18001-) and bawn (LA002-018003-) marked 'Turrets' on OS 6-inch map. Built with rubble sandstone and founded on bedrock. No evidence of plank or wattle centring in the barrel vault of the bridge, the elliptical arch measures 3.85m wide. The size and shape of this structure and its position in relation to the seventeenth century house would suggest a late-medieval date.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LA002-018002

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