Bridge

The National Monuments Service's description

Meelick Bridge traverses the Crompaun River or Meelick Creek connecting the townland of Clonconane in County Limerick to Meelick in County Clare.  The present 19th-century road bridge may have been built on the site of the medieval bridge that is depicted on the 17th-century Down Survey map of the Barony of North Liberties (Hib. Reg.;  BL Add MS 72870/14).  Present day road bridge described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as a ‘Single-arched humpback road bridge, built c. 1800, over the River Crompaun or Meelick Creek. Rubble limestone and sandstone walls. Extended to north elevation. Red brick voussoirs to round-headed arch’ (NIAH Reg. No. 21900501).  Cross referenced with CL062-049----.

See attached Down Survey map of the Barony of North Liberties which shows the bridge.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 8 June 2020

References

Hibernia Regnum: A set of 214 barony maps of Ireland dating to the period AD 1655-59. The original parish maps have been lost but the Hibernia Regnum maps are preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (Goblet 1932, v-x). Photographic facsimiles of these maps were published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton in 1908.

British Library, f. 117: 'The north Liberties of Lymricke in the Baronie of Bunratty & Parishes of Kile-ly & St Munthin by John Mason', 1656-1659.