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Castlemarket Bridge

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Castlemarket Bridge
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Castlemarket Bridge has five arches over the Ouveg, all with different ideas about size. It's an Irish mother dividing a cake into five equal slices: the equality depends entirely on who's asking.

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Five-arch rubble limestone road bridge over river, c.1775. Random rubble limestone walls with tooled cut-limestone triangular cut-waters to piers having rendered coping, and squared rubble limestone coping to parapets having sections of rounded coping. Series of five segmental arches with rubble limestone voussoirs, and rendered soffits. Sited spanning Ouveg River with grass banks to river.
A well-composed middle-size bridge forming an important element of the mid to late eighteenth-century civil engineering heritage of Kilkenny. Distinguishing characteristics including the construction in unrefined locally-sourced rubble stone together with the non-uniform profile or scale of the arches produces a rustic quality integrating the composition pleasantly into the surrounding rural landscape.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12400102

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