- Address
- Church Street, Hophill Road, Tullamore
- Type
- Bridge
- NIAH reg. no.
- 14807077
Pound Bridge
Church Street, Hophill Road, Tullamore
About Pound Bridge
Pound Bridge is one of 130 buildings in Tullamore the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates Pound Bridge to 1840–1860. 42 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
Pound Bridge, constructed over the Tullamore River, is on the site of an earlier eighteenth/nineteenth-century bridge. This bridge was erected by the Board of Works as part of the Brosna drainage scheme.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 14807077 · 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 · 14807077↗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
2 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Other recorded walls, gates and bridges around Tullamore
Closest of all: 21st Lock, Ballinagar, 7.8 km away. There are 8 with photos within 40 km. At the edge of the list, 20 km away: Rhode Bridge, Rhode.
Questions about Pound Bridge
Is Pound Bridge on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 14807077).
Can you visit Pound Bridge?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
When was Pound Bridge built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1840–1860.
Is Pound 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). Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
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