Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Farrankeal, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Farrankeal
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisheen Bridge (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.12311, -9.22686
- SMR number
- CO029-198----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Humped-back road bridge (Wth 5.2m; long axis E-W) over River Blackwater, on county boundary with County Kerry. Three segmental, almost semicircular arches (span c. 4.3m) with a fourth lower segmental arch on W side; rough voussoirs. Pointed cutwaters of ashlar limestone on upstream side. Bridge heavily repaired with cement. Bridge of 18th/early-19th-century appearance.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.