What is recorded here
Clonco Bridge in Looscaun has one arch and stone supports bracing it on both sides. For a crossing of the Woodford River, it has taken the precautions of an uncle stepping onto a wedding dance floor with two replacement hips.
Single-arch limestone bridge, built c.1840, carrying road over Woodford River. Cut snecked walls and parapet walls with cut-stone coping stones and buttresses to the north and south ends. Segmental arch with dressed voussoirs.
A simple single-arch bridge, clearly the work of skilled craftsmen and stonemasons. The solidity of its construction is emphasised by the buttresses to each side of the arch. It is one of a group of bridges built to similar designs carrying the road over local rivers.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30413201
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