Lismaine Bridge

Five-arch rubble limestone road bridge over river, c.1775. Random rubble limestone walls with cut-limestone triangular cut-waters to piers having cut-limestone coping, cast-iron tie plates, pedestrian refuge on a shallow triangular plan, and squared rubble limestone coping to parapets. Series of five segmental arches with cut-limestone voussoirs, and rubble stone soffits having remains of render over. Sited spanning River Nore with grass banks to river.

An elegantly-appointed substantial bridge representing an important element of the mid to late eighteenth-century civil engineering heritage of County Kilkenny. Forming the crossing over a wide section of the River Nore the bridge represents an appealing landmark in the locality with the construction in locally-sourced stone serving to integrate the composition pleasantly into the surrounding rural landscape.