Clydagh Bridge

Single-arch hump back road bridge over river, extant 1838. Bypassed, 1957. Now disused. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone walls with rendered rounded coping to parapets. Single segmental arch with tooled cut-limestone voussoirs. Sited spanning Clydagh River with unkempt banks to river.

An obsolete bridge representing an integral component of the civil engineering heritage of County Mayo with the architectural value of the composition, one annotated as "High Bridge" on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey (surveyed 1838; published 1839), confirmed not only by the construction in an unrefined local fieldstone offset by limestone dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arch making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the Clydagh River: meanwhile, a much-weathered benchmark remains of additional interest for the connections with cartography and the preparation of maps by the Ordnance Survey (established 1824).