Dooally Bridge, County Limerick

What is recorded here

Dooally Bridge in Churchtown, Dooally, gives the river three elegant arches and makes the road climb a hump. The water got three doors; everyone else was told to go over the furniture.

Freestanding triple-arch humpback road bridge, built c. 1840, spanning the River Dooally. Elliptical-headed arches having tooled stone voussoirs and dressed stone soffits springing from dressed piers with recent render skirting to base. Rendered V-cutwaters to north elevation. Rubble stone spandrels surmounted by rubble stone parapet wall with rubble stone coping. Tarmac road over bridge.

Located within rural surroundings, this early nineteenth-century bridge is rustic in appearance and compliments the surrounding landscape. Features including fine elliptical-headed arches with tooled stone voussoirs and well executed rubble stone spandrels enhance the structure's appearance.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21903604

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Created by Kglavin Modified Aug 2007 by Mike Christie, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
jonleebotany, Wikimedia Commons · CC0

Enclosure in ChurchtownEnclosure · 450 yd