Survey Data
Reg No
30408506
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1850 - 1855
Coordinates
162484, 231150
Date Recorded
18/08/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Single-span humpback railway bridge, built 1851, carrying road over Dublin to Galway railway line. Rock-faced rusticated battered piers and approach walls, supporting painted metal deck with painted metal latticed parapet railings.
Appraisal
A robust mid nineteenth-century railway bridge of considerable technical and civil engineering merit. It is built using the rock-faced masonry-style that is a typical feature of railway bridges constructed during the mid nineteenth-century, with unusual cast-iron lattice parapet walls.