Park Bridge, County Kilkenny

What is recorded here

Park Bridge in Glendonnell meets the river with a pointed stone cutwater, dividing it between two arches. Even the water has to split up before it can get through Mullinavat. ‘You take that one. We’ll discuss your mother downstream.’

Two-arch road bridge over river, extant 1839. Coursed rubble limestone walls centred on triangular cutwater to pier to upriver (east) elevation having pyramidal capping with concrete (south) or rubble stone (north) coping to parapets. Pair of segmental arches with lichen-spotted cut-limestone voussoirs. Sited spanning river.

A bridge representing an integral component of the civil engineering heritage of Mullinavat with the architectural value of the composition suggested not only by the rough cut limestone dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arches making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over a tributary of the Black River.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12326017

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