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Oldtown Bridge — Pearse Road

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Oldtown Bridge — Pearse Road
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Triple-arch bridge carrying road over the River Swilly, built c. 1720. Possibly incorporating fabric from an earlier bridge to site (or close to site), built c. 1620. having V-profile cutwaters to central piers to both the upstream and downstream elevations (east and west). Modern water pipes to either side elevation. Segmental-headed arches having roughly dressed rubble stone voussoirs; cement rendered lining to arch barrels. Modern reinforced concrete underpinnings to central piers. Rubble stone construction to piers, abutments, spandrels and parapets; rubble stone coping to parapets with modern repairs in places. Rubble stone wing walls to either end of parapets (north and south) splayed\stepping out from bridge. Tarmacadam deck with footpath to the east side. Located in the rural countryside to the north-east of Ballyshannon. Modern footbridge to the west elevation. Located to the south-west of the centre of Letterkenny.

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