Sheefry Bridge

Single-arch hump back road bridge over river, extant 1838. Part creeper- or ivy-covered walls with soldier course-detailed lichen-covered rough hewn limestone coping to parapets. Single segmental arch with tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Glenlaur River with gorse-covered unkempt banks to river.

A bridge representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of south County Mayo with the architectural value of the composition confirmed not only by the construction in unrefined local fieldstone offset by "sparrow pecked" sheer limestone dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arch making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the Glenlaur River in the shadow of the Sheeffry Hills: meanwhile, a much-weathered benchmark remains of additional interest for the connections with cartography and the preparation of maps by the Ordnance Survey (established 1824).

A bridge representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of south County Mayo with the architectural value of the composition confirmed not only by the construction in unrefined local fieldstone offset by "sparrow pecked" sheer limestone dressings.