Pim Bridge

Bridge

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Single-arch rubble stone hump back road bridge over canal, c.1810, with dressed stone voussoirs, rubble stone parapet walls and cut-stone date stone/plaque. Rubble stone walls. Rubble stone parapet walls. Single segmental arch. Dressed stone voussoirs. Squared rubble stone soffits with traces of render over. Sited…

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Pim Bridge is a fine stone bridge that forms an imposing feature on the Grand Canal (Milltown Branch) and is one of a group of bridges on the section of that canal that passes through County Kildare. The construction of the arch that has retained its original shape is of technical and engineering merit. The bridge exhibits good quality stone masonry and fine, crisp joints. The bridge is slightly unusual in that the roadway over it is remarkably narrow while, below, the bridge is without a tow path. The bridge is of considerable historical and social significance as a reminder of the canal network development in Ireland, which brought about many technical advances and encouraged the development of commercial activity in the early nineteenth century.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11901801

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