Mullinavat Bridge, County Kilkenny

What is recorded here

Mullinavat Bridge wears pointed stone cutwaters on one side and hefty concrete supports on the other. From the east it’s an eighteenth-century gentleman; from the west, he’s wearing the back brace and telling you he could still lift a piano.

Six-arch rubble stone road bridge over river, c.1775. Repaired, c.1950. Random rubble stone walls with cut-stone triangular cut-waters to piers to east, mass-concrete buttresses, c.1950, to piers to west, and squared rubble stone coping to parapets. Series of six round arches with cut-limestone voussoirs, and rubble stone soffits having render over. Sited spanning Pollanassa River with grass banks to river.

An appealing bridge representing an important element of the civil engineering heritage of Mullinavat. The traditional construction in unrefined locally-sourced rubble stone serves to assimilate the bridge pleasantly into the surrounding landscape.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12326009

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