Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Kinnakinelly, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kinnakinelly
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Doonmacreena Br.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Doonmacreena Bridge
- Coordinates
- 53.65442, -8.86145
- SMR number
- GA004-036----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This bridge, spanning the Dalgan River, straddles the Mayo/Galway border. In Mayo the bridge is located in Doonmacreena townland and is recorded under the number MA112-109----. An NIAH survey of the bridge (NIAH Reg. No. 30400401) 0400401) describes it as follows: ‘Narrow hump-backed nine-arch limestone bridge, built c.1725. Walls of coursed rubble limestone with tall arches, round to west, downstream side, and pointed round to east side, having thin roughly cut voussoirs. Renovated recently with new pointing and cement copings and with insertion of metal tie rods and plates to northern four arches. Upstream side has tall cutwaters with concrete or rendered caps in which pipe has been carried’ (http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah).
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 14 July 2015
Nearby in the register
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fish-pondunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.