Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Brackenstown,brazil, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brackenstown,brazil
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.45741, -6.26689
- SMR number
- DU011-028----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This is a large, single semi-circular arched stone road bridge, c.1800, over the Ward river on the R108. It is constructed of coursed rubble limestone with large, roughly squared voussoirs and projecting keystone with simple hood moulding. The crossing is indicative of an earlier bridge and older ford. Visible but unnamed on Rocque’s 1760 map (Historic Road Bridges 2009, Vol. 2, 131). Plaque on roadside façade, erected to commemorate point of assembly for Fingal Volunteers prior to the Battle of Ashbourne, Easter Week 1916.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 03 January 2015
References
Fingal Historic Bridges Project 2009 Vol. 1 and 2 http://www.fingal.ie/media/Fingal%20Historic%20Bridges%20Volume%202.pdf
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.