Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Feorus East,feorus West, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Feorus East,feorus West
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Feorus Br.
- Coordinates
- 51.84151, -9.66779
- SMR number
- KE101-123----
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-19th-century road bridge (Wth c. 7.2m; long axis E-W) spanning n-flowing tributary of the Kenmare River. Very overgrown but body appears to be of semi-coursed sandstone ashlar. Single semicircular arch with roughly saped. Base of parapets oversail body of bridge. Vertical stone coping on parapets. Stone used to build bridge was quarried using explosives as evidenced by drill holes in many of the stones. Bridge appears to have been built in 1840s during the construction of the new line of the KenmareCastletownbere road and replaced an older bridge (KE101-122---) c. 100m to the S.
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
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.