Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Lissavane East,lissavane West,listry, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissavane East,lissavane West,listry
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Listry Br.
- Coordinates
- 52.11416, -9.66743
- SMR number
- KE057-125----
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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
A road bridge (Wth 5.3m; long axis NW-SE) spanning the Gweestin River. Built of roughly coursed and uncoursed rubble. Three segmental arches; voussoirs masked in concrete. Two low pointed cutwaters of rusticated ashlar on downstream side of piers. Three dry arches on floodplain to the SE. Low buttress on downstream side of bridge between main body of bridge and SE-most dry arch. This section of the bridge is built of angular random rubble.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.