What is recorded here
Gowlabeg Bridge in Gowla holds its stonework together with iron tie-plates. Two centuries standing over a river with its braces showing, and still nobody has had the courage to tell it its shirt is missing.
Single-arch stone bridge, built c.1820, spanning Abhainn Ghabhla Beag [Gowlabeg River] and comprising irregular coursed granite rubble with cast-iron tie-plates, round arch with cut-stone voussoirs and gunnelled soffit with pipe addition. Parapet capped by rough rubble coping stones. Rubble stone flanking walls to each end.
This is a well built bridge reflecting the expansion of the road networks in the more remote districts of Ireland in the early years of the nineteenth century.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30406401
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