Bridge in Islands, County Kilkenny

What is recorded here

Bridge in Islands gives the River Goul one beautifully cut stone arch and leaves the banks to grow wild. It’s the expensive haircut on a man whose wife has just discovered he’s going to the wedding in his gardening trousers.

Single-arch road bridge over river, c.1800. Unpainted fine roughcast walls over random rubble stone construction (part exposed) with rendered coping to parapets. Single elliptical arch with cut-stone voussoirs, and squared rubble stone soffits having render over. Sited spanning River Goul with grass banks leading to overgrown random rubble stone retaining walls to river.

A small-scale bridge forming an important element of the late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of Urlingford. Cut-stone dressings displaying high quality stone masonry enhance the aesthetic appeal of an otherwise modestly-composed artefact.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12304013

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