Kiltoom Bridge, County Westmeath

What is recorded here

Single-arched road bridge over Yellow River, dated 1875. Constructed using coursed rock-faced limestone rubble with rock-faced limestone voussoirs and rusticated coping over parapet. Plaque on eastern parapet reads "UPPER INNY DRAINAGE/KILTOOM BRIDGE/1875". Located to the southwest of Castlepollard.

A well-built small-scale late nineteenth-century bridge, which is pleasing feature in the rural landscape to the southwest of Castlepollard. The good quality rusticated masonry is a typical feature of the many bridges built by Board of Works in the second half of the nineteenth century. This particular bridge was constructed by the Upper Inny Drainage Board in 1875 and is one of a number of examples in the area built as part of this project. It represents an integral element of the civil engineering Heritage of County Westmeath and is an attractive structure in its own right. This bridge replaced a 'wooden bridge' on the same site (Ordnance Survey Map 1837).

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15400706

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Peter Gavigan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Rev William Falkiner (Life time: d 1910), Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Marathon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Illustrator not named; The Dublin Penny Journal (1835), public scan from Internet Archive and JSTOR, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
James Fergusson, after E. Conwell, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Bill Griffiths, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0