Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Gortagass,gortalinny North, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortagass,gortalinny North
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Roughty Br
- Coordinates
- 51.88621, -9.54747
- SMR number
- KE093-102----
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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
Humpback road bridge (Wth 4.9m; long axis E-W) spanning the Roughty River. Two segmental arches (spans 16m) with large undressed voussoirs, of limestone and sandstone, which project irregularly at varying intervals from the arch face on the S side and less so on the N side. On the S side a rounded cutwater, the basal stones of which are dressed and shaped, rises to below the base of the parapet wall where it supports a triangular refuge niche (Wth 5m; D 1.15m). The parapets oversail the body of the bridge and contain a number of lintelled water outlets. Vertical stone coping on parapets. The approach road from the W has been widened to form a layby and the W ends of the parapets have been splayed to accommodate this.
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
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.