bridge — Mountnugent

The saved account records: Four-span limestone road bridge, built c.1750, over tributary to Lough Sheelin, with possible extension to north c.1820.

The saved account records: Uncoursed random rubble spandrels and parapet with battered stone copings to east and Scotch copings to west.

The saved account records: Round arches with regular roughly dressed limestone voussoirs, random rubble barrel on wide piers having rubble stone V-cutwaters on recent concrete footings to upstream elevation.

The saved account records: Uncoursed random rubble wing walls battered at base.

bridge — Mountnugent matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: An eighteenth century bridge shown on Taylor & Skinner’s map of 1778 with wide piers and narrow arches, a characteristic feature of contemporary bridge construction. The bridge is of a type which was widely replaced over the course of the nineteenth century in arterial drainage schemes to improve and the flow of rivers. Its form and fabric add to our understanding of developments in bridge construction over the eighteenth century, and serves as an example of bridge type now relatively uncommon. The bridge with its multiple arches, robust construction, rustic cutwaters, and substantial wing walls, presents a… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.