Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Harristown,brannockstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Harristown,brannockstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Old Br
- Latest-edition OS map
- Old Bridge
- Coordinates
- 53.12877, -6.69016
- SMR number
- KD029-048----
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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
Spanning the W-flowing River Liffey (L c. 60m NNE-SSW; max. Wth c. 7.3m; Wth of road c. 5.2m). Described by O’Keeffe and Simmington (1991, 185-6) as, ‘A tall stately seven-arch bridge … .’ Built of random rubble masonry ‘of excellent quality’, the bridge has triangular cutwaters on the upstream and downstream faces, low parapets (H c. 0.75m) and ‘probably dates from the second half of the 17th-century’ (op. cit. 185).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 17 September 2013
References
O'Keeffe, P. and Simington, T. 1991 Irish stone bridges: history and heritage. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.