What is recorded here
Bridge in Benjerstown, near Siddan, has one arch of roughly shaped stone and no grand airs. It looks as though the entire design meeting was, 'Will it reach?' followed by, 'Well, start at both ends and we'll find out.'
Single-arch road bridge, built c.1820. Rubble limestone walls with roughly dressed voussoirs.
The simple form and execution of this road bridge is representative of construction techniques utilised throughout Ireland for many modest bridges. The bridge is not of apparent architectural or engineering design, and for this reason is significant, as it is an example of a traditional building form.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 14304002
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Olivier BEZES, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
- Nuala Furley, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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