Newtown Bridge

Three-arch rubble stone road bridge over river, c.1850, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier bridge, pre-1840, on site. Random rubble stone walls with limestone ashlar triangular cut-waters to piers, and ivy-clad dressed limestone coping to parapets. Series of three segmental arches with cut-limestone voussoirs, and rubble stone soffits having traces of render over. Sited spanning Kings River with grass banks to river.

An elegantly-composed modest-scale bridge occupying the position of an earlier counterpart on site reputedly having medieval origins. The traditional construction in rubble stone serves to assimilate the bridge pleasantly into the surrounding landscape while refined limestone dressings exhibit high quality stone masonry. Representing an important element of the long-standing civil engineering heritage of County Kilkenny the bridge makes a pleasing visual statement at a crossing spanning the Kings River.