"Bridges Finished"

Excerpt from the Dublin Gazette, 1768. Image attribution: Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland

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Both the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland and JSTOR are rich sources of historical records. The former attempts to at least partially replace records which were destroyed when the Public Records Office, located in the Four Courts, was destroyed by a large explosion and fire, possibly triggered when Free State forces shelled the building in 1922 at the outbreak of the Civil War. JSTOR (Journal Storage) is a "digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources founded in 1994". The excerpt above is one of the several Kilcullen-relevant references in the Dublin Gazette, an official newspaper of the Irish Executive, the British-controlled government in Ireland based at Dublin Castle, between 1705 and 1922.

(Thanks to Liam Kenny on the Harristown Station FB page for letting me know about this, which was referenced in Irish Stone Bridges, O'Keeffe & Simington, Blackrock, 1991)