Survey Data
Reg No
30409606
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1865 - 1870
Coordinates
150268, 224710
Date Recorded
02/09/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch limestone railway bridge, carrying road over Ennis Junction to Athenry railway line, built 1869. Snecked rock-faced rusticated limestone walls and piers, having recent rendered coping to rubble stone parapet walls. Ashlar soffit. Elliptical arch with rock-faced rusticated voussoirs. Slight batter to abutment walls.
Appraisal
The railway bridge is solidly constructed with snecked limestone walls. The dressings are finely carved and are clearly the work of skilled craftsmen. The bridge displays the quality of the engineering and craft skills employed in the mid-nineteenth century. The bridge forms part of a larger group of bridges along the Ennis Junction to Athenry railway line and is a reminder of the expansion of the railway network throughout Ireland in the late nineteenth century.