Rathkenny Bridge

Four-arch limestone road bridge over Annalee River, built c.1750, with pronounced humped deck, pedestrian refuges and smaller side arch. Elliptical-headed main arches and round-headed smaller arch, all with roughly dressed voussoirs. Random-rubble spandrels, cutwaters and parapet. Three V-cutwaters on downstream elevation carried up to parapet to form pedestrian refuges on the bridge deck.

A finely composed well-proportioned road bridge of an early date, built entirely of rubble stone, with a humped deck and pedestrian refuges that are typical of its time. Typical of landlord-sponsored Grand Jury projects the bridge forms part of a road along the western edge of Rathkenny Demesne, and may have been designed to be seen from the house. The bridge is a relatively rare example of an eighteenth-century bridge, many having been replaced in improvement schemes since the nineteenth century. Interestingly, it is of similar design to Ballyhaise Bridge.