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Raford Bridge, County Galway (30408515)

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Raford Bridge
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Six-arch limestone bridge, built c.1770, carrying road over Raford River. Round arches, rubble stone V-cutwaters to south elevation, with concrete additions. Rubble limestone walls, parapet walls and voussoirs. Parapet walls rebuilt.
This pleasant bridge adds incident to the landscape as well as conveying traffic over the Raford River. The rubble stone parapet walls and slight humpback add interest to the crossing and the structure is evidence of eighteenth-century craftsmanship and engineering.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30408515

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Nigel Thompson, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Dirk Huth, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Kk, Wikimedia Commons · CC0
  • abdallahh from Montréal, Canada, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Peter Allen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • dougf, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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