Castle Ellis Bridge, County Kilkenny (12310021)

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Three-arch rubble stone road bridge over stream, c.1800. Random rubble stone walls with cut-stone triangular cut-waters to piers, cut-limestone rounded coping to parapets, and paired rendered/mass-concrete buttresses to elongated approach walls. Series of three round arches with squared rubble stone voussoirs, and…

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An attractive low-lying bridge of civil engineering heritage significance forming a picturesque feature on the road leading out of Gowran to the south-west. The construction in unrefined rubble stone produces an appealing rustic visual effect that assimilates pleasantly into the surrounding rural landscape.

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Random rubble stone walls with cut-stone triangular cut-waters to piers, cut-limestone rounded coping to parapets, and paired rendered/mass-concrete buttresses to elongated approach walls.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12310021

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