Glenpipe Bridge, County Kilkenny

What is recorded here

Glenpipe Bridge between Ballyconnaught and Glenpipe sticks a pointed stone pier into the Arrigle and sends the water through two separate arches. It handles a river like an Irish mother dividing quarrelling brothers: ‘You go that side. You go the other. I don’t care who started.’

Two-arch rubble stone road bridge over river, c.1800. Random rubble stone walls with cut-limestone triangular cut-water to pier, and squared rubble limestone coping to parapets. Pair of segmental arches with cut-limestone voussoirs, and squared rubble stone soffits. Sited spanning Arrigle River with grass banks to river.

Displaying a traditional construction in unrefined stone with limestone dressings displaying high quality stone masonry a modest-scale bridge representing an element of the late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century transport legacy of County Kilkenny forms a picturesque, if subtle landmark at a crossing over the Arrigle River.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12403605

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