Rye Bridge

Three-arch cut-stone road bridge over river, c.1800, with cut-stone rounded cut-waters to north, cut-stone voussoirs and cut-stone coping. Renovated, c.1980. Coursed cut-stone walls. Cut-stone rounded cut-waters to north. Replacement render, c.1980, to piers to south. Cut-stone coping to parapet walls. Three segmental arches. Cut-stone voussoirs. Rubble stone soffits with render over. Sited spanning Rye Water.

Rye Bridge is a fine cut-stone bridge that forms an attractive feature on the Rye Water and is one of a group of bridges on the section of that river that passes through County Kildare. The construction of the arches that have retained their original shape is of technical and engineering merit. The bridge exhibits good quality stone masonry and fine, crisp joints. The bridge is of considerable historical and social significance as a reminder of the road network development in Ireland in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries.