Blackfriars' Bridge
Bridge in Kilkenny, Ireland, dating from 1630–1635
Three-arch rubble stone road bridge over river, built 1633-4. Random rubble stone walls with inscribed benchmark, and rock-faced cut-limestone coping to parapets. Series of three round arches on random rubble stone piers with rubble stone voussoirs, and squared rubble stone soffits. Sited spanning Breagagh River with squared limestone retaining walls to river supporting grass bank having random rubble stone boundary wall.
- Type:
- Bridge
- Period:
- 1630–1635
- Where:
- Kilkenny, Ireland
- Coordinates:
- 52.65°N, 7.26°W
More places nearby
- Black Abbey Catholic Church (0.1 km)
- Bridge (0.2 km)
- Steps (0.2 km)
- Rothe House (0.2 km)
- Saint Canice's Cathedral (0.2 km)
- Kilkenny Courthouse (0.3 km)
- Saint Mary's Catholic Cathedral (0.3 km)
- Bishop's Palace (0.3 km)
- Kyteler's Inn (0.3 km)
- The Tholsel (0.4 km)
- Green's Bridge (0.5 km)
- Saint Mary's Church (Saint Mary's) (0.5 km)
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