Island Bridge
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Island Bridge (formerly Sarah Bridge) is a road bridge spanning the River Liffey, in Dublin, Ireland and joining the South Circular Road to Conyngham Road at the Phoenix Park.
Island Bridge and the surrounding area are so named, because of the island formed here at the junction of the Camac and Liffey rivers.
In 1577, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, while Sir Henry Sidney was Lord Deputy of Ireland, an arched stone bridge was built here to replace an earlier structure nearby at Kilmainham.
This bridge was swept away by a flood in 1787, and in 1791 the (current) replacement bridge was constructed.
The current structure is a single 32 metre span ashlar masonry elliptical arch bridge, and was originally named Sarah Bridge after the Countess of Westmoreland, who laid the first stone. (Sarah, Countess of Westmoreland was the wife of the then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland).
As with many other Dublin bridges (particularly those named for British peers), the bridge was renamed following independence by the Free State as Island Bridge in 1922.
[edit] External links and sources
- Map of Islandbridge
- Antiquemapsandprints.com - 1828 Print from Ireland Illustrated Petrie, Barlett, & Baynes (with text by G.N. Wright)
- Chapters.eiretek.org - Extract from Historical Guide to the City of Dublin G.N. Wright 1825.
- Current and Future Trends in Bridge Design, Construction and Maintenance, Institution of Civil Engineers, ISBN 0-7277-3091-6
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| Outside city centre: Liffey Bridge (Phoenix Park Tunnel) | Island Bridge | Anna Livia Bridge | Farmleigh Bridge (Disused) | Lucan Bridge | West-Link Bridge |
