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Lismanny Bridge
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Single-arch limestone canal bridge, built c.1828, formerly carrying road over the Ballinasloe branch of Grand Canal, now disused. Elliptical arch with ashlar soffit and tooled voussoirs. Splayed parapet walls, rubble stone to road elevations, dressed snecked stone to canal elevations, with cut-stone curved string…

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Single-arch limestone canal bridge, built c.1828, formerly carrying road over the Ballinasloe branch of Grand Canal, now disused. Elliptical arch with ashlar soffit and tooled voussoirs. Splayed parapet walls, rubble stone to road elevations, dressed snecked stone to canal elevations, with cut-stone curved string course and coping. Square-profile tapering piers to north-east end, rebuilt piers to south-west end. Dressed snecked stone walls. Dressed and cut-stone embankments to canal.
Built under the charge of engineer and surveyor, Hamilton Hartley Killaly (1800-74), this canal bridge is of evident technical merit, with a sufficiently high arch to allow the passage of barges below. The iconic design with the splayed parapet walls and tapering piers is seen throughout the route of the Grand Canal, which provided a valuable trade and transport route from Dublin to Ballinasloe. The precisely cut stone with the curving string course shows the skill of nineteenth-century stonemasons.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30410001

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Steve & Jemma Copley on Flickr, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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