Gowlan Bridge

Single-arch road bridge over stream, built 1828-31[?]; extant 1838. Coursed rubble sandstone walls with lichen-covered rendered rounded coping to parapets. Single segmental arch with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning stream with unkempt banks to river.

A bridge erected to a design attributed to Alexander Nimmo (1783-1832), Engineer to the Western District (appointed 1822; replaced 1833), representing an important component of the early nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of south County Mayo with the architectural value of the composition, one sometimes known as "Gowlaun Bridge", confirmed not only by the "sparrow pecked" sheer limestone dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arch making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over a tributary of the Erriff River.