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Meelick Bridge, County Limerick (LI005-038----)

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LI005-038----
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Meelick Bridge traverses the Crompaun River or Meelick Creek connecting the townland of Clonconane in County Limerick to Meelick in County Clare. The present 19th-century road bridge may have been built on the site of the medieval bridge that is depicted on the 17th-century Down Survey map of the Barony of North…

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Meelick Bridge traverses the Crompaun River or Meelick Creek connecting the townland of Clonconane in County Limerick to Meelick in County Clare. The present 19th-century road bridge may have been built on the site of the medieval bridge that is depicted on the 17th-century Down Survey map of the Barony of North Liberties (Hib. Reg.;  BL Add MS 72870/14). Present day road bridge described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as a ‘Single-arched humpback road bridge, built c. 1800, over the River Crompaun or Meelick Creek. Rubble limestone and sandstone walls. Extended to north elevation. Red brick voussoirs to round-headed arch’ (NIAH Reg. No. 21900501). Cross referenced with CL062-049----. See attached Down Survey map of the Barony of North Liberties which shows the bridge.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI005-038

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  • Na Piarsaigh GAA Limerick (official club facilities page publisher); individual photographer not named, napiarsaighgaa.com
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Keith Wiseman / Limerick City and County Council, Source publisher
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