Survey Data

Reg No

15603201


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Technical


Original Use

Tunnel


In Use As

Tunnel


Date

1870 - 1875


Coordinates

297287, 139889


Date Recorded

13/06/2005


Date Updated

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Description

Tunnel, opened 1872. Part creeper- or ivy-covered portal walls with cut-limestone chamfered stringcourses supporting replacement concrete block parapets. Single horse shoe-profiled openings with margined rock faced limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning railway line.

Appraisal

A tunnel identified as an integral component of the later nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of Enniscorthy on account of the connections with the extension of the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway (DWWR) line opened (1872) by the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway (DWWR) Company (cf. 15702905; 15703728).