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Drumskellan Bridge

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Drumskellan Bridge
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Single-arch road bridge over stream, built c. 1800. Round-headed arch with cut stone voussoirs, rubble stone piers and stone stringcourse. Rubble stone parapet with squared stone coping, rendered in places and with stringcourse to deck level. Stream partly canalised with rendered retaining wall to west bank. Double…

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Single-arch road bridge over stream, built c. 1800. Round-headed arch with cut stone voussoirs, rubble stone piers and stone stringcourse. Rubble stone parapet with squared stone coping, rendered in places and with stringcourse to deck level. Stream partly canalised with rendered retaining wall to west bank. Double carriageway with tarmacadam deck.
A handsome bridge with good architectural detailing including cut stone voussoirs and stringcourses. Although crossing a fairly minor stream, a bridge of this scale was required to maintain the level of the road. Its continued use is testimony to its engineering and construction. A number of tuck and flax mills are marked just downstream of the bridge on the Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map of c. 1837.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 40903910

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Maker not stated on source page, uk.pinterest.com
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.elizabethskitchendiary.co.uk
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.youtube.com
  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Gaelic Life; individual aerial photographer not named, www.gaeliclife.com
  • Greg Clarke, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
  • Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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