New Bridge in Ballyshonock, County Wexford

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Six-arch road bridge over river, completed 1829. Part creeper- or ivy-covered walls centred on tuck pointed granite ashlar triangular cutwaters to piers having pyramidal capping with moss-covered rendered rounded coping to parapets centred on cut-granite panelled date stones ("1829"). Series of six round or segmental…

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A bridge representing an important component of the early nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of north County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition confirmed not only by the rough cut stone work offset by silver-grey granite dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship; but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arches making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the River Slaney: meanwhile, a discreet benchmark remains of additional interest for the connections with cartography and the preparation of maps by the Ordnance Survey (established 1824).

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15700405

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