Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bridge
Skagh,croom, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skagh,croom
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Br.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.51890, -8.71860
- SMR number
- LI030-025002-
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
Croom Bridge crossing the River Maigue was described in The Urban Survey of County Limerick' as following; 'A broken bridge is mentioned in 1657' (Westropp 1906-7, 166) (Bradley et. al. 1989, 118).
Croom Bridge described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as a, 'Six-arch road bridge over the River Maigue, built c. 1790, with round-headed arches. Bridge may incorporate substantial earlier fabric. Roughly dressed limestone walls with concrete parapet walls having metal railings. Cut limestone voussoirs to arches. Ashlar limestone V-cutwaters to south elevation and concert U-cutwaters to north elevation' (www.buildingsofireland.ie; Reg. No. 21828008).
References
Bradley, J., Halpin, A., and King, H.A. 1989 Urban archaeological survey - county Limerick (3 vols.). Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Westropp, T.J. 1906-7 The ancient castles of the county of Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 26, 54-264.
Nearby in the register
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.