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Newells Bridge

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Newells Bridge
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Single-arched road bridge over River Brosna, built c.1870. Constructed using coursed rock-faced limestone rubble with rusticated rock-faced limestone voussoirs to arch and an ashlar string course to road level. Roughly dressed limestone coping to parapet. Cast-iron ties to sides of bridge. Located to the east of…

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Single-arched road bridge over River Brosna, built c.1870. Constructed using coursed rock-faced limestone rubble with rusticated rock-faced limestone voussoirs to arch and an ashlar string course to road level. Roughly dressed limestone coping to parapet. Cast-iron ties to sides of bridge. Located to the east of Castletown Geoghegan.
A well-built small-scale mid-to-late nineteenth-century bridge, which is pleasing feature in the rural landscape to the east of Castletown Geoghegan. The good quality rusticated masonry is a typical feature of the many bridges built by Board of Works in the second half of the nineteenth century, suggesting that they were responsible for the construction of this bridge. It replaced an earlier bridge at this location (map 1838). It represents an integral element of the civil engineering Heritage of County Westmeath and is an attractive structure in its own right.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15403207

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