Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Slaght, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Slaght
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Drinagh Br.
- Coordinates
- 51.92464, -9.46081
- SMR number
- KE085-048----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 road bridge (Wth 6.2m; long axis N-S) spanning a SE-flowing tributary of the Owbeg River. Built of random rubble sandstone. Eliptical arch (span 3.1m) with roughly shaped voussoirs some of which project up to 0.3m beyond the faces of the bridge. Sides under arch are of coursed rusticated ashlar. Body of bridge reinforced with unusual buttresses to either side of arch. On the 1846 OS 6-inch map the road approaching the bridge site to the S is indicated as being "in progress" and it seems likely that the bridge was built as part of this work.
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.