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Macartney's Bridge and Locks — COOLSICKIN OR QUINSBOROUGH

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Macartney's Bridge and Locks — COOLSICKIN OR QUINSBOROUGH
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Single-arch dressed stone hump back road bridge over canal, dated 1784, with dressed stone voussoirs, keystone and coping to parapet wall. Dressed stone walls to abutments. Dressed stone terminating piers. Dressed stone parapet walls. Cut-stone date stone plaque. Single segmental arch. Dressed stone voussoirs with central keystone. Squared rubble stone soffits with traces of render over. Sited spanning Grand Canal (Athy Branch) with grass banks to canal.Canal lock, c.1785, to north comprising sections of stone ashlar retaining walls with stone bollards and timber lock gates over incorporating integral pedestrian footbridge.

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