Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Incheens, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Incheens
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.96047, -9.57751
- SMR number
- KE084-071----
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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
Mid/late 19th-century humpback road bridge (Wth 5.65m; long axis N-S) spanning the Ullaun River. Built of random rubble. Single segmental arch (span 7.1m) with roughly shaped protruding voussoirs. Abutments splay outwards from arch on both faces of bridge and river banks are revetted on both sides. Parapets collapsed (H 0.2m). Stretch of road on which bridge occurs, now restricted to pedestrian use, was not built at time of 1846 OS 6-inch map.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.