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Bridge
Coneyburrow (donaghcumper Ed),parsonstown (celbridge Ed),st. Wolstans, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coneyburrow (donaghcumper Ed),parsonstown (celbridge Ed),st. Wolstans
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- New Bridge
- Coordinates
- 53.34830, -6.51035
- SMR number
- KD011-011----
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
Spanning the N-flowing River Liffey. According to the owner, Mr. Richard Cane (1920, 56) a bridge was reputedly built here by John le Decer, Mayor of Dublin, in 1308. Sherlock (1909-11, 293-305) described it as having four arches, the two outer rounded, the two inner pointed, with wattle imprints visible on the undersides, and carrying a narrow roadway (Wth c. 2.8m). According to a 1985 Foras Forbatha report (SMR file) the bridge was replaced by a three-arched facsimile with cutwaters and refuges, built of concrete faced with stone [named 'New Bridge' on latest ed. (1939) of the OS 6-inch map]. Sherlock (op. cit.) also comments 'The ancient ford (KD011-039----) was somewhat below the bridge'. In 1995, an underwater archaeological survey (Keeley 1986, 10: Excavation licence no. 95E0178) identified a pier and stone paving from the original bridge below the central arch of the present bridge. (Camden 1896, 214; Kirkpatrick 1896, 288; Sherlock 1909-11, 293-305.)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
References
Keeley V.J. 1996 Draft Report Archaeological Assessment Proposed Bridge Construction at the ‘Newbridge' and Proposed Road at Celbridge, Co. Kildare. Unpublished report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
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