Broken Bridge, County Limerick

What is recorded here

Broken Bridge in Cloonpasteen, Tulligmacthomas, presents three stone arches to anyone brave enough to get past the name. That’s a very Irish welcome: build a perfectly convincing crossing, then make the directions sound like a warning from your mother.

Freestanding triple-span road bridge, built c. 1820, spanning the River Deel. Camber-headed arches with tooled limestone voussoirs and dressed stone soffits. Springing from dressed rubble stone piers with tooled limestone quoins and later render skirting to base. Triangular tooled limestone cutwaters to south elevation with tooled limestone and render capping. Dressed rubble stone spandrels surmounted by dressed rubble stone parapet walls with dressed rubble stone coping. Coursed dressed rubble stone abutments to banks.

The design of this bridge shows evidence of both skilled engineering and well crafted stone work with finely tooled voussoirs and cutwaters. The contrasting fabrics of rubble stone and more refined voussoirs add a degree of interest to this fine bridge.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21904503

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Harold Strong, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Created by Kglavin Modified Aug 2007 by Mike Christie, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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