Survey Data
Reg No
14938010
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
Date
1850 - 1860
Coordinates
205695, 196528
Date Recorded
02/06/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch masonry bridge, constructed c.1858, carrying the Shinrone Birr road over the disused Birr Roscrea railway line. Erected by the Roscrea and Parsonstown Railway Company. Rock-faced limestone parapets, piers and embankments and arch rings. Brick lined soffit to arch. Horizontal tooling to coping on parapet and on imposts. The sandstone rock-faced parapets are linked by a random coursed wall. Situated beside Sharavogue Bridge which carried the road over the Little Brosna River.
Appraisal
Although the railway line in no longer open, the bridge survives as a reminder of the work of the Roscrea and Parsonstown Railway Company. It is one of only two intact bridges built by that company that are still surviving. The other bridge is a lattice girder bridge in the townland of Ballylonnan and Glasderry More. There is a group association with the nearby road bridge.