1852 – Military Bridge, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo

Formerly known as Military Bridge, or Barrack Bridge, this fine structure joins the Green, which was used as an exercise area for the cavalry horses, with the ruins of the Cavalry Barracks. The barracks was formally the manor house of the Cuff family. The bridge has excellent stonework with radiating voussoirs from the single span archway over the River Robe. Constructed between 1849 and 1852.

The barracks described in “A Topographic Dictionary of Ireland” by Samuel Lewis as: “There are barracks for cavalry and infantry; the former adapted to the accommodation of 8 officers and 106 non-commissioned officers and privates, with stabling for 84 horses; the latter for 6 officers and 96 non-commissioned officers and men, with a hospital for 20 patients.”