Bridge, Dublin South City, Co. Dublin
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Bridges & Crossings
Not every entry in the archaeological record leads somewhere illuminating, and this one is a case in point.
A bridge recorded in Dublin's south city carries the quiet administrative distinction of being a duplicate site, meaning it appears twice in the national monuments database, cross-referenced against record DU018-020228. It is, in other words, the same place counted twice, a clerical echo rather than a second structure.
Duplicate entries of this kind are more common than one might expect in large-scale heritage surveys. As recording projects accumulate over decades, sites documented by different teams or at different times can end up assigned more than one reference number before the overlap is caught and flagged. The compiler of this record, Caimin O'Brien, uploaded the note on 28 June 2023, at which point the duplication was formally acknowledged. Beyond that administrative fact, the source material offers nothing further about the bridge itself, its age, its construction, or its precise location within the south city.
For anyone curious enough to investigate further, the paired record DU018-020228 would be the more productive place to look, as it presumably holds the substantive entry for whatever structure is being described. The Sites and Monuments Record, maintained by the National Monuments Service, is publicly searchable online, and cross-referencing between duplicate entries is straightforward once you have both numbers in hand. The bridge itself remains, at least on the basis of this record alone, essentially anonymous.