Kinnegad Bridge (Kinnegad (Cionn Átha Gad))

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Built c.1665. Constructed of coursed random rubble stone with roughly dressed voussoirs to the arch. Three arches of the seventeenth century bridge survive to the southeast side of the bridge.
This bridge is first mentioned in the 1660s and was altered c.1731 as part of a scheme to improve the coach road from Dublin to Kinnegad, which was described as 'impassible in Winter' at this time. The river channel was altered/moved to the northwest and a new bridge built in the 1840s as part of the extensive Upper Boyne District Drainage Scheme carried out by the Board of Works. This 1840s bridge was later replaced by a concrete bridge, c.1936.
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Coordinates:   53°27'10"N   7°5'45"W
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