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Shannon Bridge — Shannonbridge

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Shannon Bridge — Shannonbridge
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What is recorded here

Sixteen-arch road bridge, completed in 1757, spanning the River Shannon. Concrete fixed span added to east end in 1983. Random coursed limestone walls with ashlar voussoirs to round-headed arch-rings. Stone corbels to rendered soffits. Cut stone string courses to parapets surmounted by cut stone coping. Full-height upstream and downstream V-cutwaters with pedestrian refuges to parapet. Limestone plaque to east end gives dates for bridges construction and opening to navigation. Modern metal lamp standards to road surface.

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