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Chapelizod Bridge (South)

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Chapelizod Bridge (South)
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Single-arch limestone road bridge over river, c.1825, with single-arch culvert to east. Irregular coursed tooled cut-limestone walls with tooled cut-limestone rounded coping to parapets. Single camber arch with cut-limestone voussoirs having keystone, and squared rubble limestone soffits having render over. Single round arch to culvert with cut-limestone voussoirs, and squared rubble limestone soffits having render over. Sited spanning River Glory with grass banks to river.
Forming an important component of the early nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of County Kilkenny a modest-scale Classically-detailed bridge exhibiting expert stone masonry represents an elegant landmark spanning a crossing over the River Glory.

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