Newbridge Bridge, County Galway

What is recorded here

Newbridge Bridge between Gortanummera and Kilcorban wears rough, hammer-dressed limestone with a smart granite stripe. It’s a farmer who’s put on a tie for dinner and considers any further discussion of the jacket deeply personal.

Single-arch limestone bridge, built c.1860, carrying road over Kilcrow River. Hammer-dressed rusticated parapets with cut granite string course to external elevations. Segmental arch having hammer-dressed rusticated voussoirs.

This simple single-arch bridge is clearly the work of skilled craftsmen and engineers employed to design a new bridge following river drainage works and associated road realignment. The combination of dressed limestone and granite along the length of the parapet walls provides textural interest.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30411713

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