Graiguenamanagh Bridge

Bridge in Kilkenny, Ireland, dating from 1760–1770

Seven-arch hump back road bridge over river, built 1764-7. Damaged, 1798. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone walls centred on submerged triangular cutwaters to piers having cut-granite pyramidal capping with cut-granite coping to parapets. Series of seven segmental arches between round-headed niches with rusticated cut-granite block-and-start voussoirs centred on cut-granite double keystones. Sited spanning River Barrow with grass banks to river.

Type:
Bridge

Period:
1760–1770

Where:
Kilkenny, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.54°N, 6.95°W

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