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Road and Bridge · Photo: kevin higgins · CC BY-SA 2.0

What is recorded here

The ordinary view hides the useful part of the story. Sited spanning Sruhnasilloge River with arch to north forming underpass on grass bank to river, and random rubble stone retaining wall to bank to south.

Three-arch rubble stone road bridge over river, c.1800. Random rubble stone walls with tooled cut-limestone triangular cut-waters to piers, and rendered coping to parapets. Series of three round arches with dressed rubble stone voussoirs (some rendered), and rubble stone soffits. Sited spanning Sruhnasilloge River with arch to north forming underpass on grass bank to river, and random rubble stone retaining wall to bank to south.

Sited spanning Sruhnasilloge River with arch to north forming underpass on grass bank to river, and random rubble stone retaining wall to bank to south.

Exhibiting a traditional construction in unrefined locally-sourced stone a modest-scale bridge of rustic character representing an element of the late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century transport heritage of County Kilkenny forms an appealing feature in a rural landscape.

The story behind this place

Sited spanning Sruhnasilloge River with arch to north forming underpass on grass bank to river, and random rubble stone retaining wall to bank to south.

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