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Bridge

Gortagass,Gortalinny North, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bridge, Gortagass, Gortalinny North, 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
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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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)
  • 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)

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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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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