Survey Data
Reg No
15403139
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1850 - 1855
Coordinates
228602, 242855
Date Recorded
17/10/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arched railway bridge, built c.1851, carrying road over former Midland Great Western Railway company Mullingar to Galway line. No longer in active use. Constructed of rusticated limestone with elongated rock-faced voussoirs to arch and rusticated limestone coping over dressed limestone parapet. Ashlar limestone string courses at road level and at springing point of arch. Located to the east of Streamstown Junction railway station (15403140) and to the southwest of Castletown Geoghegan.
Appraisal
A robust and elegantly-appointed railway bridge representing an important element of the transport and civil engineering heritage of County Westmeath. This bridge was originally built by the Midland and Great Western Railway Company to serve the Mullingar to Galway line, which opened in 1851 and closed in 1987. This bridge is one of a number of similar bridges in the area associated with this company. This bridge is well-built using rock-faced and rusticated limestone, a typical feature of mid nineteenth-century engineering projects of this nature. The elongated voussoirs to the arch are a distinctive feature. This bridge is an appealing feature in the landscape to the southwest of Castletown Geoghegan and forms an interesting group of related structures at Streamstown Station (15403140).