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Bridge in Commons

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Bridge in Commons
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What is recorded here

Single-arch rubble limestone road bridge over river, c.1825. Ivy-clad random rubble limestone walls with rubble limestone coping to parapets. Single round arch with cut-limestone voussoirs, and rubble limestone soffits having traces of render over. Sited spanning tributary of Little Arrigle River with grass banks to river.
Exhibiting a traditional construction in unrefined stone with dressings displaying high quality craftsmanship a small-scale bridge represents an important element of the early nineteenth-century transport legacy of the locality.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12321008

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Maker named on the Wikimedia Commons picture page · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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