Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Quartertown Upper,dromore (duhallow By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Quartertown Upper,dromore (duhallow By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Clyda Br (Upper) (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.11372, -8.66813
- SMR number
- CO033-110----
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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
Road bridge (Wth 7.4m; long axis E-W) over Clyda River. Random-rubble sandstone construction with limestone detail. Six semicircular arches (span c. 3m), dressed limestone voussoirs, some sandstone. Pier width c. 1m, low pointed cutwaters on upstream side. Vertical stone coping atop parapet wall. Bridge of late-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
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- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
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- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.