Clogh Bridge, County Kilkenny

What is recorded here

Clogh Bridge in Toortane sticks a stone wedge into the river and sends it through two separate arches. Even the water gets “You two, away from each other” before it’s allowed into Clogh.

Two-arch rubble limestone road bridge over river, c.1825. Random squared rubble limestone walls with tooled limestone ashlar rounded triangular cut-water to pier, and cut-limestone coping to parapets. Pair of camber arches with tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs having keystones, and squared limestone soffits. Sited spanning Clogh River with grass banks to river.

An elegantly-appointed bridge representing an important component of the early nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of County Kilkenny. The profile of the arches combined with the ashlar dressings displaying expert stone masonry introduce a formal quality to an otherwise rustic bridge with the resulting composition making a pleasant impression on the aesthetic appeal of the landscape.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12400202

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