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Mountain Castle Bridge

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Mountain Castle Bridge
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Three-arch limestone road bridge over river, dated 1872. Irregular coursed rock-faced squared limestone walls with cut-limestone triangular cut-waters to piers, cut-stone stringcourse, and broken coursed squared limestone parapets having cut-stone date stone/plaque, and cut-stone parapet. Series of three segmental…

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Three-arch limestone road bridge over river, dated 1872. Irregular coursed rock-faced squared limestone walls with cut-limestone triangular cut-waters to piers, cut-stone stringcourse, and broken coursed squared limestone parapets having cut-stone date stone/plaque, and cut-stone parapet. Series of three segmental arches with rock-faced limestone ashlar voussoirs, and squared rubble stone soffits having render over. Sited spanning Finisk River with grass banks to river.
An elegantly-proportioned bridge built by John Sheehan (n. d.) to designs prepared by the engineer Charles Tarrant (1815 – 1877). The construction in limestone serves to assimilate the composition into the surrounding landscape, while the civil engineering heritage importance of the bridge is identified by the profile of the arches, which have retained their original shape.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 22902211

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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