From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

Islandbridge

Bridge over the River Liffey in Ireland

Summary

Bridge over the River Liffey in Ireland

Field	Value
bridge_name	Islandbridge
native_name	Droichead na hInse
native_name_lang	Irish
image	Islandbridge.jpg
image_size	270
alt	Sarah's Bridge, ca 1820
caption	Island Bridge circa 1820 (then called "Sarah's Bridge")
crosses	River Liffey
locale	Dublin, Ireland
preceded	Anna Livia Bridge
followed	Liffey Railway Bridge
design	Arch bridge
designer	Alexander Stevens
material	Ashlar masonry
length	32m
spans	1
complete	1791-1793
opened	First: 1577
Rebuilt: 1791
Renamed: 1922
coordinates

Rebuilt: 1791 Renamed: 1922

Island Bridge (), formerly Sarah or Sarah's Bridge, is a road bridge spanning the River Liffey, in Dublin, Ireland which joins the South Circular Road to Conyngham Road at the Phoenix Park.

Island Bridge and the surrounding area (often known as Islandbridge) are so named because of the island formed here by the creation of a mill race towards the right bank while the main current flows to the left. The River Camac emerges from a tunnel further downstream towards Dublin Heuston railway station.

History

The area around Islandbridge contains a number of notable Viking burial sites from the 9th and 10th centuries which indicate the area as being one of the earliest recorded contacts between the Vikings and Ireland. It was also a fording point, on the River Liffey, since at least the early medieval period.

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 between 1791 and 1793 the replacement bridge, that is standing today, was constructed. The structure is a single 32-metre span ashlar masonry elliptical arch bridge and was originally named Sarah's Bridge after Sarah Fane, Countess of Westmorland, wife of the then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who laid the first stone on 22 June 1791.

The bridge was renamed Island Bridge in 1922 following independence from Britain of the Free State, similarly to many other Dublin bridges originally named for British peers.

The bridge has become synonymous with the area, and the residential area around the bridge is now commonly known as "Islandbridge".

Gallery

File:DUBLIN(1837) p131 SARAH'S BRIDGE, ON THE RIVER ANNA LIFFEY.jpg|Island Bridge, seen here circa 1820 when it was known as Sarah's Bridge. File:IslandBridge-top.JPG|Road view of the bridge File:IslandBridge-full.JPG|Islandbridge in 2012 File:Memorial Rose-Garden 001.JPG|Irish National War Memorial Gardens

References

Ruddock, Ted. (2008). "Arch Bridges and Their Builders 1735-1835". Cambridge University Press.
"Island Bridge".
"Droichead na hInse". Placenames Database of Ireland.
"Island Bridge, South Circular Road, Islandbridge, Dublin 8, DUBLIN".
"Viking Archaeology - Viking Age Burials in Dublin".
"The Vikings beneath modern Dublin".
(June 2023). "Underwater Archaeological Impact Assessment (UAIA) Proposed Rowing Pontoon, River Liffey, Islandbridge, Co. Dublin". Dublin City Council.
De Courcy, John W.. (1996). "The Liffey in Dublin". Gill & Macmillan.
(2001). "Current and Future Trends in Bridge Design, Construction and Maintenance". Institution of Civil Engineers.
"Bridges".
Watson, Samuel. (1792). "The Gentleman's and Citizen's Almanack, Compiled by Samuel Watson, For the Year of our Lord, 1792". Printed for Samuel Watson, at No. 71, in Grafton-Street, Thomas Stewart, Bookseller, No. 1, King'-Inns-Quay, and George Draper, Junior, Bookseller, seventy-one Grafton-Street, 1792.
"Dublin 8: Move over Phibsboro – another Dublin neighbourhood hits the ultimate 'cool' list".

Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

bridges-in-dublin-(city) bridges-completed-in-1793 1793-establishments-in-ireland uppercross georgian-architecture-in-dublin-(city)

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about Islandbridge — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report