Overview
bridge — Lucan is recorded as bridge in Dublin. The saved source gives an exact reason to look beyond the map label: Single-arch road bridge over canalised river, c.1840.
Why it was built
The saved source records: Single-arch road bridge over canalised river, c.1840.
People and work
The short source does not safely name the people, events or traditions tied to this exact point. A famous nearby story is not attached without evidence that it belongs here.
How it changed
The saved wording does not establish one complete story of attack, rebuilding, abandonment, damage or later change. No single cause is claimed without evidence.
What survives
The saved source records: Ashlar walls, parapets and voussoirs, with benchmark to southern face of north parapet.
Why it mattered
bridge — Lucan matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A simple, robust nineteenth-century bridge which complements the associated water course. Historically significant as part of the former main Dublin-Galway road. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
Places near here
- public house — Lucan Roadbuildingunder 0.1 miles
- shop/retail outlet — Main Streetbuildingunder 0.1 miles
- Water mill — unclassified in Lucan AND Pettycanonmonumentunder 0.1 miles
- Lucan Garda Síochána Station — Leixlip Roadbuildingunder 0.1 miles
- outbuilding — Adamstown Roadbuildingunder 0.1 miles
- Rose Cottage — Leixlip Roadbuildingunder 0.1 miles
- house — Lucan Roadbuildingunder 0.1 miles
- canal (section of) — Main Streetbuildingunder 0.1 miles
- Griffeen Lodge — Adamstown Roadbuildingunder 0.1 miles
- Lucan — Lucan AND Pettycanonmonumentunder 0.1 miles
- public house — Main Streetbuildingunder 0.1 miles
- house — Lexilip Roadbuildingunder 0.1 miles
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