Cormey Bridge

The saved account records: Double-arch stone road bridge, built c.1750, spanning River Lagan, with recent concrete abutments.

The saved account records: Punch-dressed stone parapet and rendered coping.

The saved account records: Slightly deformed semi-circular arches with irregular cut-stone voussoirs, random rubble soffit partially rendered over coursed-squared rubble stone abutments.

The saved account records: Rubble stone abutments and wing walls.

Cormey Bridge matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A stone road bridge spanning the Meath Cavan boarder of relatively early date, evidenced by the irregular from of its construction, constituting a valuable contribution to the civil engineering heritage of the county. The course of the road skirting an historic demesne is typical of rural infrastructure funded under the landlord-controlled grand jury system in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuies. The composition of the bridge is elegantly balanced and proportioned demonstrating an eighteenth century sensibility, and is finished with simply executed stonework. The bridge is in good condition retaining most of… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.