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Creggs Bridge

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Creggs Bridge
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Creggs Bridge in Creggauns keeps one arch for the river and another for floods. The dry one has the finest excuse in Galway: 'If you see me doing any work, we're all in trouble.'

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Two-arch humpbacked limestone bridge, built c.1800, but reconstructed c.1850. Round and segmental arches with ashlar voussoirs cut in block and start fashion. Coursed rubble stone walls with rectangular-plan cutwaters. Walls capped with roughly cut coping stones. One arch acts as flood arch as river has been narrowed and only one arch is used for flow of water.
This bridge gives the appearance of being a rebuilding in the mid-nineteenth century of an earlier bridge, this fact giving added interest to what is a good exaple of nineteenth-century bridge-building.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30402004

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5; Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Sarah777 at en.wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; AmandaMcCrann, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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