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Bridge

Cappagh (Glanarought By.),Dromanassig, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bridge, Cappagh, Dromanassig, 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
Cappagh (Glanarought By.),Dromanassig
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Dromanassig Br.
Coordinates
51.85459, -9.52056
SMR number
KE093-113----

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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

Mid-/late 19th-century road bridge (Wth c. 4.5m; long axis E-W) spanning the Sheen River. Three segmental arches (span c. 12m) with dressed voussoirs, some of which protrude from face of bridge. Intervening low piers (H c. 1.5m; Wth c. 2m) with rounded cutwaters, which rise to height of piers, on upstream side; rhomboid-shaped cutwater (H 1m) abuts downstream side of W pier. Well-built random rubble abutment at both ends of bridge. Vertical stone coping on parapet walls; replaced in places with concrete. Weir immediately adjacent to bridge on downstream side.

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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