Survey Data
Reg No
22903207
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Tunnel
Date
1875 - 1880
Coordinates
233884, 96826
Date Recorded
05/01/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Railway tunnel, opened 1878. Closed, 1967. Now disused. Elliptical-headed openings to tunnel with cut-stone voussoirs, and squared rubble stone soffits forming barrel vault to tunnel with remains of lime render over. Sited passing through slight hill with overgrown banks to valley originally accommodating railway line.
Appraisal
An important element of the civil engineering heritage of Waterford, this tunnel survives as a reminder of the introduction of the railway network to the county by the Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours Company in the late nineteenth century as part of the development of the Great Southern Railway line. Although now long-decommissioned, the tunnel retains much of its original form and profile.