Foot bridge in Callan North, County Kilkenny

What is recorded here

Foot bridge in Callan North crosses the Kings River on stone piers with pointed noses to split the current. It’s the auntie of bridges: “You go that side, you go the other. There’ll be no pushing while I’m here.”

Three-span footbridge over river, c.1925. Series of lintel spans on tooled limestone ashlar piers having triangular cut-waters, and sections of iron railings over having ivy-clad terminating piers with cut-limestone coping. Sited spanning Kings River with random rubble stone retaining walls to river leading to grass banks having random rubble stone retaining walls.

Forming an attractive, if discreet feature spanning the Kings River an elegantly-appointed footbridge represents an important element of the early twentieth-century civil engineering heritage of Callan.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12314069

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