bridge

Two-arch road bridge over river, extant 1838[?]. Tuck pointed tooled limestone ashlar walls centred on tooled limestone ashlar triangular cutwater to pier to upriver (north-east) elevation having tooled cut-limestone pyramidal capping with drag edged tooled cut-limestone stringcourses supporting benchmark-inscribed parapets having rock faced cut-limestone coping. Pair of round or segmental arches with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs centred on drag edged tooled cut-limestone keystones. Sited spanning Dalgan River with concrete block retaining walls to river.

A bridge representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of Ballyhaunis with the architectural value of the composition confirmed not only by the construction in a "sparrow pecked" limestone demonstrating exemplary workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arches making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the Dalgan River: meanwhile, a benchmark remains of additional interest for the connections with cartography and the preparation of maps by the Ordnance Survey (established 1824).