
What is recorded here
Road bridge (long axis E-W) spanning the Sheen River close to the point where it enters Kenmare Bay. Built of random rubble. Five arches (span c. 5.5m) with roughly shaped voussoirs, carried on piers (Wth c. 1m). The central arch is semicircular and appears to have been extended by c. 3m to the N; two flanking segmental arches on either side. Four pointed cutwaters on upstream side rise to the height of the arches. Corbels at springing points under arches. Two segmental overflow arches on floodplain to the W and one to the E. According to Lansdowne estate documents it was built in 1777 (Lansdowne 1937, 148).
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 30 May 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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