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Bridge in Skagh, County Limerick (LI030-025002-)

Bridge

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LI030-025002-
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Croom Bridge crossing the River Maigue was described in The Urban Survey of County Limerick' as following; 'A broken bridge is mentioned in 1657' (Westropp 1906-7, 166) (Bradley et. al. 1989, 118). Croom Bridge described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as a, 'Six-arch road bridge over the River Maigue, built c. 1790, with round-headed arches. Bridge may incorporate substantial earlier fabric. Roughly dressed limestone walls with concrete parapet walls having metal railings. Cut limestone voussoirs to arches. Ashlar limestone V-cutwaters to south elevation and concert U-cutwaters to north elevation' (www.buildingsofireland.ie; Reg. No. 21828008).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI030-025002

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • PAUL FARMER, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
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