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Old Weir Bridge

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Old Weir Bridge
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Old Weir Bridge in Glena, Gortracussane, sits below the Meeting of the Waters with a pointed stone pier dividing the flow again. The waters have barely been introduced before a small stone chaperone says, ‘Leave room for the Holy Ghost.’

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Two-arch hump back bridge over river, extant 1725. In ruins, 1998. Restored, ----. Repointed rubble stone walls centred on triangular cutwater to pier (north) having pyramidal capping with schist soldier course coping to parapets. Pair of segmental arches with repointed schist voussoirs. Sited spanning The Long Range below "The Meeting of the Waters".

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21307405

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Pictures: Ian Macnab, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Maker named on the Wikimedia Commons picture page · Public domain; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Marathon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Dr Charles Nelson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Wikimedia Commons contributor · Public domain; Graham Horn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; TJBrosnan at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Ben Gamble, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Pam Brophy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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