Survey Data
Reg No
15601039
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Scientific, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1860 - 1865
Coordinates
315969, 160072
Date Recorded
07/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Single-span railway bridge over road, opened 1863. Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed coursed or snecked rock faced walls including tuck pointed coursed or snecked rock faced piers with cut-granite chamfered stringcourses supporting parapets having cut-granite chamfered coping centred on riveted rolled steel girder. Sited spanning road with unkempt embankments to road.
Appraisal
A bridge identified as an integral component of the mid nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of Gorey on account of the connections with the extension of the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway (DWWR) line opened (1863) by the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway (DWWR) Company: meanwhile, a eet benchmark remains of additional interest for the connections with cartography and the preparation of maps by the Ordnance Survey (established 1824).