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Buttevant Bridge:

The old bridge over the Awbeg River in Buttevant is a curiosity (Blake's Bridge).

Many years ago it was widened, but not

too much. It now presents two different

faces. The arches at the south side are

pointed, those on the north, being the

more modem additives are round. The

original breath was about one-third of the present.The masonry is antique in character

and similar to the Franciscan Abbey, a short

distance away.

Archaeologist Note

The bridge was built in two phases with the southern, downriver side being the earliest and reckoned to date to the thirteenth century (Power 2000, 636). The earlier section is describes as having four pointed segmental arches, with roughly cut limestone voussoirs. O’Keeffee and Simmington in their study of Irish stone bridges regard it as being of thirteenth century date and therefore ‘a landmark bridge in the national context’ (quoted in Power, op. cit.). Eamonn Cotter ma,miai, Consulting Archaeologist

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