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Bridge in Townparks, County Galway (30313033)

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Bridge in Townparks
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Triple-span limestone-block road bridge, built c.1800, having round arches, two north-west arches to river and south-west arch to mill race, with wide wall between watercourses. Regularly coursed limestone block walls with rubble blockwork and bowed cutwaters to piers. Arches have ashlar limestone voussoirs. Limestone…

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Triple-span limestone-block road bridge, built c.1800, having round arches, two north-west arches to river and south-west arch to mill race, with wide wall between watercourses. Regularly coursed limestone block walls with rubble blockwork and bowed cutwaters to piers. Arches have ashlar limestone voussoirs. Limestone block parapet to bridge with tooled coping stones and having remains of camber-headed red-brick arches. Limestone block walling infilled with earth separating watercourses. River fed from Eglinton Canal to north-west and mill race fed from river.
This fine stone bridge with its ashlar limestone parapets, voussoirs and cutwaters is an important feature of the streetscape and riverscape. The red-brick arches to the parapet walls are of particular interest as they indicate that the bridge has undergone several stages of alteration during its history.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30313033

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30313033
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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • BdelosArcos, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • N Chadwick, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Wikimedia Commons contributor · CC SA 1.0
  • Sarah777, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Berthold Werner, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Joseph Mischyshyn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
  • N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Robert Linsdell from St. Andrews, Canada, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
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