Colthurst's Bridge
Location | Carrignamuck/Clonmoyle East/Peake, County Cork, Ireland |
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Coordinates | 51°55′50.3″N 8°46′11″W / 51.930639°N 8.76972°W |
Type | Bridge |
Site notes | |
Public access | Yes |
Colthurst's Bridge is situated 2.9 km (1.8 mi) north of
The Ordnance Survey name book (c. 1840), refers to it as a bridge with four arches over the Delehinagh River, and named Coulthurst's Bridge, as it was 12 chains (0.24 km (0.15 mi)) south-west of Mr Coulthurst's property. The Delehinagh River meets with the Dripsey River a short distance from the bridge.
The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork describes it as a road bridge with three arches, varying in shape and width, but generally semicircular. The bridge was said to possess dressed sandstone voussoirs, corbels on its piers which supported arch-centring during construction, and low pointed breakwaters on its upstream side.[1] Pointed arches were an important feature of later Gothic Revival architecture, and said to be also present at Colthurst's Bridge.[2]
See also
- Dripsey Castle, Carrignamuck
- Carrignamuck Tower House
- Dripsey Castle Bridge
- Trafalgar Monument, Carrignamuck