Bury Bridge
Convent Road, O'Carroll Street, Tullamore
About Bury Bridge
Bury Bridge is one of 130 buildings in Tullamore the National Inventory rates Regional. Bury Bridge dates from 1795–1800. 22 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
Bury Bridge was built in 1799 and carries a roadway over an entrance into a canal dock. The bridge retains many of the typical characteristics evident in canal bridges, such as its humped deck form, the mixture of finally tooled limestone and random coursed walls and towpaths which lead under the bridge.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 14807089 · 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 · 14807089↗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
Tullamore · about 500 m on foot, as the crow flies
8 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Walls, gates and bridges on the record near Tullamore
All 8 are pictured and within 40 km. Closest of all: 21st Lock, Ballinagar, 7.7 km away. At the edge of the list, 20 km away: Rhode Bridge, Rhode.
Questions about Bury Bridge
Is Bury Bridge on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 14807089).
Can you visit Bury Bridge?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
When was Bury Bridge built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1795–1800.
Is Bury 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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