Shannon Bridge
Bridge in Offaly, Ireland, dating from 1755–1760
Sixteen-arch masonry road bridge, completed in 1757, carrying the Ballinasloe Shannonbridge road across the River Shannon and linking Counties Offaly and Roscommon. Concrete fixed reinforced-concrete span added to east end in 1983. Random rubble limestone walls with dressed limestone voussoirs to semicircular arch-rings. Stone corbels to rendered soffits. Dressed limestone string courses to parapets surmounted by dressed stone coping. Full-height upstream and downstream V-cutwaters with pedestrian refuges to parapet. Limestone plaque to east end gives dates for bridges construction and opening to navigation. Modern metal lamp standards to road surface.
- Type:
- Bridge
- Period:
- 1755–1760
- Where:
- Offaly, Ireland
- Coordinates:
- 53.28°N, 8.05°W
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- Shannonbridge Battery (0.1 km)
- Saint Brendan's Cathedral (4.4 km)
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