What is recorded here
Cloonbeg Bridge in Derryvickrune gets you safely over the Owenmore, then offers stone steps down to the riverbank. That’s Galway hospitality: save you from the river, then insist you come down and meet it. ‘Ah, it’s different when you know it.’
Single-arch road bridge, built c.1810, spanning Owenmore River. Comprises irregular coursed rubble stonework with dressed limestone piers carrying chamfered pecked and margined limestone string course to base of parapet. Dressed limestone segmental arch with gunnelled concrete soffit. Margined and rock-faced limestone copings to parapets. Stone steps give access to north-eastern river bank adjacent to bridge.
This bridge attests to the expansion of the road network in the early nineteenth century and thereby also increased the possibility to improve commerce and communications in an area that was up until then difficult to traverse. It is solidly constructed to serve its function, but with finer details to the piers and string course it also has an aesthetic value.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30403610
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