Dripsey Castle Bridge
| Dripsey Castle Bridge | |
| County Cork | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Carrying: | Millview Terrace |
| Crossing: | Unnamed stream |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | W47707552 |
| Location: | 51°55’47"N, 8°45’40"W |
| Structure | |
| History | |
| Built c. 1780 | |
| Information | |
Dripsey Castle Bridge in County Cork carries a lane, named Millview Terrace, over a minor stream that soon joins the Dripsey River, two miles north-east of Coachford village, just under a mile north-west of Dripsey village. It was built around 1780.
The bridge stands at the meeting point of Carrignamuck and Meeshal townlands.
In the Ordnance Survey name book of 1840, this bridge is referred to as a small stone bridge, one-eight of a mile to the south-west of Hayfield House. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage describes it as a triple-arch humpback road bridge built around 1780.
The bridge has rubble stone walls, concrete capping to the parapet, arches with dressed stone voussoirs, and v-shaped cutwaters on its east and west elevations. The bridge's name is from the grand house nearby; Dripsey Castle.
The entrance to Dripsey Castle stands beside the bridge as a gate lodge and an ornamental tower.
See also
- Carrignamuck (townland)
- Dripsey Castle
- Carrignamuck Tower House
- Trafalgar Monument, Carrignamuck
- Colthurst's Bridge
- Larchfield House, Carrignamuck