Survey Data
Reg No
12006020
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Foot bridge
In Use As
Foot bridge
Date
1845 - 1850
Coordinates
251759, 155967
Date Recorded
27/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch limestone ashlar footbridge over railway line, opened 1848. Limestone ashlar walls (including to abutment walls) with limestone ashlar dressings including advanced flanking piers, cut-limestone stringcourse, and cut-limestone course to parapet having cut-limestone coping supporting replacement steel railings. Single segmental arch with cut-limestone stringcourse to spring of arch, limestone ashlar voussoirs, and cut-limestone soffits. Sited spanning railway line with grass banks to railway line.
Appraisal
An elegantly-appointed bridge forming an important element of the civil engineering heritage of County Kilkenny on account of the associations with the development of the Waterford and Maryborough [Portlaoise] Branch extension of the Great Southern and Western Railway line (later accommodating the Carlow and Kilkenny Branch) by the Waterford and Kilkenny Railway Company. Finely-detailed in the Classical manner cut-limestone accents exhibiting the very high quality stone masonry typical of such projects enhance the architectural design value of the composition in the landscape.