2025:380 - Ballycorkey Bridge, Ballycorkey, Westmeath
County: Westmeath
Site name: Ballycorkey Bridge, Ballycorkey
Sites and Monuments Record No.: WM006-080
Licence number: 25E0233
Author: Antoine Giacometti
Author/Organisation Address: Archaeology Plan, 129 North Strand, D03 W8C1
Site type: Bridge
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 631083m, N 763947m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.624414, -7.530131
Archaeological monitoring of conservation works at Ballycorkey Bridge, a multi-phased bridge situated over the River Inny in Ballycorkey, Co. Westmeath (RMP WM006-080) took place in 2025. The site is both a Recorded Monument and a Protected Structure. Ministerial consent was obtained for this monitoring programme due to the multiphase structure of the bridge and the presence of a castle (WM006-044), bawn (WM006-044001) and weir (WM006-081) just southwest of the bridge (WM006-080). Conservation works focused on repointing existing masonry, reconstruction of buttresses, and included masonry repairs to collapsed walls.
Archaeological investigations identified foundation stones and a small masonry structure sitting on a wall to the immediate south of the bridge. This may relate to the castle site in the adjacent field. Pre-nineteenth-century bridge fabric was also identified during monitoring works.