Survey Data
Reg No
30409419
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1850 - 1855
Coordinates
135352, 222506
Date Recorded
19/09/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch limestone railway bridge, built 1851, carrying Dublin to Galway railway line over road. Rock-faced rusticated walls, round arch with rock-faced rusticated voussoirs and soffit. Cut-stone parapet walls and string course, snecked roughly dressed abutments with dressed copings.
Appraisal
This robustly constructed bridge in rusticated limestone is typical of railway engineering and architecture of the mid-nineteenth-century. The rock-faced voussoirs are a distinctive feature and the rustication of the soffit of the arch is well executed, indicating the skill employed in the design and execution of this bridge.