Survey Data
Reg No
30408704
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1850 - 1855
Coordinates
181310, 231338
Date Recorded
26/08/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch limestone railway bridge, built 1851, carrying minor road over Galway to Dublin railway line. Rock-faced rusticated cut limestone walls and voussoirs, rock-faced rusticated limestone parapet walls with terminating piers with cut stone caps. Recent approach railings.
Appraisal
This typically robust mid-nineteenth-century railway bridge is of considerable technical and civil engineering merit. It is built using the rock-faced rusticated finish that is a typical feature of railway bridges constructed during the mid-nineteenth century.