Lisduff Bridge, County Kilkenny

What is recorded here

Lisduff Bridge at Ballynascarry (Gore) and Garnagale puts a proper hump over the Munster River. A speed bump would have done, but somebody wanted your stomach to arrive a moment after the rest of you.

Two-arch rubble limestone road bridge over river, c.1875, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier bridge, pre-1840, on site. Random rubble limestone walls with cut-limestone triangular cut-water to pier, and rendered rounded coping to parapets. Pair of round arches with tooled cut-limestone voussoirs, and rubble limestone soffits. Sited spanning Munster River.

A picturesque small-scale bridge representing an element of the mid to late nineteenth-century civil engineering legacy of County Kilkenny. Integrating pleasantly into the surrounding rural landscape on account of the construction in unrefined limestone a number of dressed stone details enhance the architectural design value of the composition. Making a positive, if subtle impact in the locality the bridge is identified by the elegantly humped profile of the deck.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12401202

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