What is recorded here
Cloonbeg Bridge in Derryvickrune has a beautifully fitted stone arch with a rough dry-stone wall above it. Below, every stone has an appointed place; above, it’s ‘move over there, Michael, we’ll get another one in.’
Single-arch road bridge, built c.1810, spanning Owenmore River. Comprises dressed stone blocks built to courses with projecting quoins tying into revetment for road. Segmental arch with finely dressed voussoirs with stone soffit. Dry-stone rubblework parapet (probably later addition).
This bridge attests to the expansion of the road network in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Its well-made stonework is notable.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30403611
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