Irish stone bridges : history and heritage /
By: O'Keeffe, Peter.
Contributor(s): Goodbody, Rob [editor.] | Simington, Tom.
Publisher: Newbridge, Co. Kildare, Ireland : Irish Academic Press, 2016Edition: New revised edition.Description: xxvi, 438 pages : illustrations (mostly coloured) ; 27 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1911024140 (cloth); 9781911024149:; 9781911024149 (cloth).Subject(s): Engineering -- Ireland -- History | Stone bridges -- Ireland -- History | Bridges -- Ireland -- HistoryDDC classification: 624.209415 | OKEItem type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 624.209415 OKE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0089363 |
Includes bibliographic references (pages 390-408) and index.
Foreword to the first edition -- Foreword to the revised edition -- preface to the first edition -- Preface to the revised edition -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The number of bridges -- Athanna and clocháns -- Bridge laws -- Grand juries and the presentment system -- Maps showing bridges -- Drainage and inland navigation -- Timber bridges -- Mortar -- Stone bridges -- Bridge fortifications and mills -- Bridge characteristics -- Masonry arch design -- Articles on slected bridges -- Appendices -- Notes --Original notes : abbreviations -- Glossary -- Addenum : a note on arch forms -- Index.