Bridge in Milltown, County Kildare

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Single-arch cut-stone road bridge over canal, c.1800, with cut-stone voussoirs. Coursed cut-stone walls. Cut-stone piers. Cut-stone parapet walls. Single segmental arch. Hammer dressed cut-stone voussoirs. Red brick soffits. Sited spanning Grand Canal (Milltown Branch) with grass banks to…

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This bridge is a fine stone bridge that forms a picturesque feature on the Grand Canal (Milltown Branch) and is one of a group of bridges on the section of that canal that passes through County Kildare. The construction of the arch that has retained its original shape is of technical and engineering merit. The bridge exhibits good quality stone masonry and fine, crisp joints. The bridge is of considerable historical and social significance as a reminder of the canal network development in Ireland, which brought about many technical advances and encouraged the development of commercial activity in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11901814

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Milltown GAA official website; individual photographer not stated, www.milltowngaa.com
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