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Dunamon Bridge

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Dunamon Bridge
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Ten-arch masonry road bridge, built c.1770 by Caulfields on the site of a twelfth-century bridge. Full-height V-cutwaters up and down stream. Random coursed limestone walls with round-headed arch-rings. Pedestrian refuges to parapet level. This bridge spans the River Suck and leads to Dunamon Castle.
Dunamon Bridge has been a crossing on the River Suck since the twelfth century when Dunamon Castle was first recorded in the Annals of the Four Masters. Since then, the bridge has undergone many alterations and improvements. The bridge today dates to the 1770s when the then owners of Dunamon Castle rebuilt and improved the bridge. A print of the castle from about 1792 illustrates the bridge in its current form with the pedestrian refuges at parapet level. The bridge is a striking feature in the landscape of the Suck Valley and an appropriately impressive route to the imposing Dunamon Castle.

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