Dripsey Castle Bridge | |
Crosses: | Delehinagh River |
Coordinates: | 51.9297°N -8.7611°W |
Location: | Carrignamuck/Meeshal, County Cork, Ireland |
Design: | Triple-arch stone bridge |
Dripsey Castle Bridge is situated 1.34km (00.83miles) north-west of Dripsey village and derives its name from nearby Dripsey Castle.[1] Depicted on both the 1841 and 1901 surveyed OS maps, it spans a section of the Delehinagh River. The bridge is located at the meeting point of Carrignamuck and Meeshal townlands,[2] and lies within the civil parish of Magourney and Catholic parish of Aghabullogue.
In the Ordnance Survey name book of, it is referred to as a small stone bridge, one-eight of a mile to the south-west of Hayfield House. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage describes it as a triple-arch humpback road bridge built . It has rubble stone walls, concrete capping to the parapet, arches with dressed stone voussoirs, and v-shaped cutwaters on its east and west elevations.[1]