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Ards Bridge
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Single-arch humpbacked canal accommodation bridge carrying small road over Royal Canal, built c. 1815. Round/elliptical-headed arch with dressed ashlar limestone voussoirs and dressed ashlar limestone masonry to barrel. Rendered finish (now failing) over rubble stone construction with cut limestone string course at road/deck level. Rendered finish over rubble stone construction to parapets with curving ends terminated in dressed ashlar limestone piers (on square-plan). Dressed limestone coping over parapet walls. Towpath to west bank of canal with dressed limestone retaining walls to canal banks (east and west). Rubble stone wing walls to ends of parapets. Located to the southwest of Killashee.

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