Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
An Spidéal Thiar,both Chuanna Thoir, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Spidéal Thiar,both Chuanna Thoir
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Br.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Spiddal Bridge
- Coordinates
- 53.24404, -9.30806
- SMR number
- GA092-004----
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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
Described as follows in the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage: 'Three-arch road bridge, rebuilt 1894 and possibly incorporating fabric of bridge of c.1670, spanning Abhainn Bhoth Loiscthe. Rusticated limestone block walls, piers and abutments built to courses with snecked rubble to parapets with recent crenellated copings. Rusticated limestone voussoirs to segmental arches and having U-cutwaters. Inscribed plaque to south elevation of parapet reads 'Built 1894 P Mc Donagh Contractor' and second reads 'Spiddal Bridge First built 1670 Rebuilt 1894 Widened 1981' (http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah accessed 4 April 2017).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 4 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Townunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.