Cox's Bridge and 27th Lock
Clara Road, Kilbride Street, Tullamore
About Cox's Bridge and 27th Lock
Cox's Bridge and 27th Lock is one of 130 buildings in Tullamore the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates Cox's Bridge and 27th Lock to 1805–1815. 4 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
The bridge is part of a group of canal structures that include the lock and lock house. It is of architectural interest in terms of its quality of construction and its place in the series of canal bridges built at the end of the eighteenth and start of the nineteenth centuries.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 14807102 · 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 · 14807102↗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 15 minutes
Tullamore · about 700 m on foot, as the crow flies
- 1Cox's Bridge and 27th LockStart here
- 2The MaltingsRegional rating (NIAH) · 300 m on
- 3D.E. Williams HouseRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 4Bank of IrelandRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 5Irish National Foresters HallRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
More walls, gates and bridges on the record near Tullamore
All 8 are pictured and within 40 km. Closest of all: 21st Lock, Ballinagar, 8.5 km away. Rhode Bridge in Rhode is the farthest, at 21 km.
Questions about Cox's Bridge and 27th Lock
Is Cox's Bridge and 27th Lock on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 14807102).
Can you visit Cox's Bridge and 27th Lock?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
When was Cox's Bridge and 27th Lock built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1805–1815.
Is Cox's Bridge and 27th Lock 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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