Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Lauragh Lower,reenkilla, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lauragh Lower,reenkilla
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cappul Br.
- Coordinates
- 51.76277, -9.78065
- SMR number
- KE108-068----
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
Road bridge (Wth 6.4m; long axis E-W) spanning the mouth of the Croanshagh River. Built of random rubble sandstone. Two segmental arches with rusticated voussoirs; low pointed cutwater on upstream and downstream sides of central pier. Base of parapet walls oversails faces of bridge. Vertical stone coping, with occasional horizontal blocks, on parapets.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Four posterunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.