What is recorded here
Single-arch masonry bridge, built in 1793, over the Grand Canal. Random rubble wall with dressed voussoirs. Parapets with dressed limestone blocks and curved string courses across faces extending to piers. Carved limestone name and date plaques to upstream and downstream parapets reads: 'Cartland Bridge 1793'.…
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From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 14911007
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Derek Usher, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- Maker not stated on source page, ca.pinterest.com
- Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
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