Oxmantown Bridge
Birr
About Oxmantown Bridge
The National Inventory rates Oxmantown Bridge Regional, one of 295 in Birr. Its record dates Oxmantown Bridge to 1810–1820. 150 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
This road bridge is an important crossing point within the town of Birr. It is typical of mid nineteenth-century bridge design.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 14819190 · 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 · 14819190↗Regional is the National Inventory’s rating for a building of significance in its region; most rated buildings carry it.
Make it a walk: 5 historic places in about 10 minutes
Birr · about 400 m on foot, as the crow flies
8 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Near Birr: more walls, gates and bridges on the record
Banagher Bridge in Banagher is the nearest, at 12 km. There are 8 with photos within 40 km. Farthest out is Castletown Bridge, Castletown, 31 km away.
Questions about Oxmantown Bridge
Is Oxmantown Bridge on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 14819190).
Can you visit Oxmantown Bridge?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
When was Oxmantown Bridge built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1810–1820.
Is Oxmantown 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).
Sources: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (buildingsofireland.ie) · Photos: Wikimedia Commons, including the National Library of Ireland’s collections, each credited with its licence and copied to our own server · Wikidata (CC0) for other names and articles. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
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