What is recorded here
Limestone causeway, erected c.1860, carrying road over Newtown Lough. Rubble revetments, battered to south side. Rubble parapet walls made of smaller stones, with some drainage holes to base.
This causeway serves a significant practical function in carrying a relatively recently constructed road over what appears to be a flood plain. Its battered base, design and construction is testament to the engineering skills of the mid- to late 1800s. It is one of a series of nineteenth-century roads and causeways in the South Galway area.
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