Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Kilteel Upper, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilteel Upper
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle Bridge
- Coordinates
- 53.23271, -6.52453
- SMR number
- KD020-007009-
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
A small, single-arched, masonry bridge with low, walled parapets (total Wth 7.8m ENE-WSW) crosses a now dry stream bed only 3.5m ENE of a gatehouse associated with a preceptory of Knights Hospitallers (KD020-007003-), and carries a minor road running NNW-SSE. The bridge's well-finished arch (Wth 2.4m; H 1.8m) is faced with undressed voussoirs, with a fine granite keystone on the WSW face. A now illegible plaque was read by Fitzgerald (1916 ) as dating its construction to 1830.
Although only a few metres to the ENE of the ruined gatehouse (which presumably controlled a crossing point on the stream) the crossing point appears to have been moved, probably to create a wider carriageway, and the bridge may well incorporate stone from the earlier gatehouse?
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Knights Hospitallersunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.