Moore's Bridge, County Kildare

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Single-arch rubble stone road bridge originally over canal, dated 1784, with cut-stone voussoirs and dressings including round-headed recessed niches and date stone/plaque, and cut-stone coping to parapet walls. Renovated, c.1825, with opening blocked-up to east forming open-fronted outbuilding. Coursed rubble stone walls. Cut-stone dressings including round-headed recessed niches with keystones and date stone/plaque. Cut-stone coping to parapet walls. Single segmental arch. Cut-stone voussoirs. Rubble stone soffits with render over. Opening to east blocked-up, c.1825, with rubble stone. Sited spanning site of original route of Grand Canal (Athy Branch). Gravel forecourt to front.

Moore’s Bridge is a fine stone bridge that is of considerable interest, representing the original route of the Grand Canal (Athy Branch). The construction of the arch that has retained its original shape is of technical and engineering merit. The bridge exhibits good quality stone masonry and fine, crisp joints. The bridge is of considerable historical and social significance as a reminder of the canal network development in Ireland in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11816006

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