Island Bridge :: Shared Description

Island Bridge(formerly Sarah or Sarah's Bridge) is a road bridge spanning the River Liffey, in Dublin, and joins the South Circular Road to Conyngham Road at the Phoenix Park.
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.
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 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.
by N Chadwick
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Created: Tue, 8 Jan 2019, Updated: Tue, 8 Jan 2019

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