Discover Alone, back to main map

Lawson's Ford Bridge

Bridge
Lawson's Ford Bridge
Photo: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage · Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

What do you know about this place?

No account needed. Your comment will be public.

0 / 600

Five-arch humped-back stone road bridge, built c.1750, over Annalee River. Coursed random-rubble stone parapets capped with Scotch coping on north parapet and with squared coping on south parapet. Spandrels also of coursed random rubble stone. Graduated round arches with roughly squared voussoirs, ashlar voussoirs to three outer arches to south face. Random rubble stone soffits. V-cutwaters with cut-stone arrises and V-cappings. Recent concrete footings carried around cutwaters and abutments.
An eighteenth century road bridge characterised by its rubble stone construction and Classcial composition with graduated arches. The fall of the ground on approach to the bridge and the name 'Lawson's Ford' suggest that it was the site of an earlier fording of the Annalee River. It is a well executed bridge with an expressive humped deck and faces, elegantly graduated arches and the large cutwaters that are of technical interest. The approach from the south affords fine views of the downriver elevation.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 40401729

This does not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.

Places near here

Riverside HouseHouse · 104 ydCastleCastle, unclassified · 336 ydCabragh HouseHouse · 747 ydCastleCastle, unclassified · 822 ydCabragh RingfortArchaeological place · 1381 ydCordoagh Glebe Upper ForestForest · 1595 ydBrown's HillMountain / peak · 1.6 miFlagpole HillMountain / peak · 2.4 miGraveyard in Drumgoon (clankee By.)Graveyard · 2.4 miGiants GraveArchaeological place · 2.7 miDartrey ForestForest · 2.8 miGiant GraveCourt tomb · 3.1 mi

Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Pamela Norrington, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; D Gore, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; This file is from the Mechanical Curator collection , a set of over 1 million images scanned from out-of-copyright books and released to Flickr Commons by the British Library. View image on Flickr View all images from book View catalogue entry for book ., Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Qbit warrior, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

More historic places in County Cavan · All of County Cavan

Add to this placeAdd a picture Comment or add a tip Add a story

Explore 1,118,478 places