Overview
Bunnoe Bridge is recorded as bridge in Cavan. Double-arched limestone road bridge over Bunnoe River, built c.1810. Segmental arch rings with irregular cut-stone voussoirs, hammer-dressed cutwaters to both faces with cap stones.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Double-arched limestone road bridge over Bunnoe River, built c.1810.
People and work
The saved account records: Segmental arch rings with irregular cut-stone voussoirs, hammer-dressed cutwaters to both faces with cap stones.
How it changed
The saved account records: Spandrels and parapet of random rubble with regular block coping to parapet and rubble Scotch coping to wing wall.
What survives
The official record fixes the place and calls it bridge. It does not provide a full list of finds or a current condition report, so visible and buried remains are not guessed.
Why it mattered
Bunnoe Bridge matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A well-executed road bridge using local stone, with a plain rubble parapet disguising the complexity of the structure below. It is typical of rural road bridges of the period across Ireland, built under the grand jury system in a period of considerable expansion of the road network. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
Places near here
- Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Duncollogmonument0.1 miles
- Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Bunnoemonument0.2 miles
- Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lisboduffmonument0.3 miles
- Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Pottle Eastmonument0.3 miles
- Bunnoe Playgroundattraction0.3 miles
- Duncollogmountain0.4 miles
- St Mary's Roman Catholic Church — Bunnoebuilding0.4 miles
- Mapped cemetery — County Cavanmemorial0.4 miles
- Embanked enclosure — Pottle Eastcastle0.5 miles
- Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Corcraff (rakenny Ed)monument0.5 miles
- Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballyhallymonument0.6 miles
- Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Dunmurrymonument0.7 miles
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