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Bridge

Glena,Gortracussane, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bridge, Glena, Gortracussane, County Kerry, 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
Glena,Gortracussane
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Old Weir Br.
Coordinates
52.00757, -9.54947
SMR number
KE074-026----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1868 · 4. Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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 humpback bridge (Wth 3.4m; long axis E-W) spanning a channel linking Muckross Lake to the Upper Lake. It is currently in use as a pedestrian bridge on a walking route in Killarney National Park. The bridge is built of random rubble and has two semicircular arches with roughly shaped voussoirs. There is a low pointed cutwater on the upstream side of the pier and a shallow rectangular projection on the downstream side. There are also buttress on each bank on the upstream side. The parapets have collapsed and the upper surface of the bridge is much degraded. This bridge is indicated and named 'Old Ware Bridge' on the estate map of the Kenmare estate, dated 1725.

Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.

Date of upload: 30 May 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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