Survey Data
Reg No
12403708
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Viaduct
Date
1880 - 1890
Coordinates
271725, 129598
Date Recorded
09/12/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Five-span railway viaduct over river, designed 1884; dated 1886; opened 1887. Closed, 1963. Now disused. Sited spanning River Barrow with unkempt banks to river.
Appraisal
A bridge erected to a design by John Chaloner Smith (1827-95), Chief Engineer to the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway (DWWR) Company (appointed 1871; retired 1894), identified as an integral component of the later nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of south County Kilkenny on account of the connections with the development of the New Ross Branch of the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway (DWWR) line opened (1887) by the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway (DWWR) Company.