Donore Bridge

Double-arched road bridge over small river/stream, built c.1775. Constructed using rubble limestone with rubble limestone parapet walls and roughly dressed limestone voussoirs to arches. Central pier now cement rendered. Located to the northeast of Horseleap.

A well-built small-scale bridge, which retains its early form and fabric. The form of this bridge, with two small arches having rather unrefined voussoirs, suggests that it may be quite early in the date, perhaps mid-to-late eighteenth-century in origin. The present parapet walls appear to be have been added at some stage after the initial construction. This bridge is similar in form many small-scale bridges that were built by the Grand Juries to improve the transport system in Ireland, particularly during the late eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, a period of relative economic prosperity. This single-arch road bridge is part of the local infrastructure and as such is of social significance.