Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Arkeen Beg,derryvickrune, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Arkeen Beg,derryvickrune
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.44247, -9.88246
- SMR number
- GA050-004----
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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
In bogland on the old bridal roadway from Roundstone to Ballynahinch, this two-arched bridge (L 11.5m; Wth 5.2m) straddles a small stream linking Ardkeen Beg Lough to the W with the Owenmore River to the E. It is neatly built of roughly coursed squared-off blocks and spawls with segmental arches. It is best preserved on the E side, some collapse has occurred on the W side. The roadway on top is now grass covered.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 4 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy well1 mi
- Religious house - Dominican friars1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.