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Bridge

Kilteel Upper, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bridge, Kilteel Upper, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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