Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Tristaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tristaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29385, -8.27451
- SMR number
- GA087-262----
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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
In pastureland on the NW bank of the Ballinure River. This bridge of is built of random rubble with a lime-based mortar. One partially collapsed semicircular arch (dims. H 0.85m; Wth 1.9m; L c. 2m) of thin voussoirs (L 0.5m) survives. It is grass covered but its external face is visible on the S side. The original road metal (L 4m) is covered in thick tufts of grass and no parapet wall survives. The archway is now dry as the present course of the river has been diverted c. 2m to the S and it has evidently been deepened. The bridge would have originally crossed the river at a right angle. According to local information, this bridge was in use before the existing stone bridge was constructed c. 4.2m to its E.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 4 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Kilnunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.