- Type
- Bridge
- NIAH reg. no.
- 40903005
Beggars Bridge
About Beggars Bridge
The National Inventory rates Beggars Bridge Regional, one of 2 in Quigleys Point. Its record dates Beggars Bridge to 1760–1840.
A finely built small road bridge with good quality stone masonry on the road lining Carrowkeel to Carndonagh. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map of c. 1837 as ‘Beggars Bridge’ and has been an important crossing point over the Pollan River for at least two centuries.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 40903005 · CC BY 4.0 · Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
NIAHRead its National Inventory recordThe full description and appraisal, the survey photo and the map · 40903005↗Regional is the National Inventory’s rating for a building of significance in its region; most rated buildings carry it.
Finding Beggars Bridge
Quigleys Point
Recorded walls, gates and bridges around Quigleys Point
Start with Glebe Bridge in Moville, 11 km away. Within 40 km, 6 have a photo. Farthest out is Bunagee Pier, Culdaff, 18 km away.
Questions about Beggars Bridge
Is Beggars Bridge on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 40903005).
Can you visit Beggars Bridge?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
When was Beggars Bridge built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1760–1840.
Is Beggars Bridge protected?
Being on the National Inventory or the Sites and Monuments Record is a record, not protection by itself: buildings are protected by their council’s Record of Protected Structures, which each council keeps and no national open list gathers, so this page can’t say which are on it.
Source: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage and Sites and Monuments Record, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata (CC0).
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