Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Mangerton,Slaght, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mangerton,Slaght
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Mangerton Br.
- Coordinates
- 51.92895, -9.46173
- SMR number
- KE085-047----
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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)
- 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Mid/late 19th-century road bridge (Wth 4.1m; long axis N-S) spanning the Owbeg River. Built of random rubble sandstone. Single segmental arch (span c. 12m) with roughly shaped voussoirs. Parapets slightly oversail body of bridge. Upright stone coping on parapets has been replaced in places with concrete. Upstream face of bridge has been partially encased in concrete on either side of arch.
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
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.