Survey Data
Reg No
11811035
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1850 - 1890
Coordinates
289130, 222621
Date Recorded
25/04/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch dressed stone railway bridge over road, c.1870, with rock-faced granite voussoirs and dressed stone coping. Renovated, c.1990. Coursed dressed stone walls. Cut-stone stringcourse to spring of arch. Cast-iron tie plates. Cut-stone coping. Replacement concrete block, c.1990, to parapet walls with replacement iron railings over. Single round arch with rock-faced voussoirs and yellow brick soffits. Sited spanning road as part of Great Southern and Western Railway line.
Appraisal
This railway bridge is a fine stone structure built as part of the Great South and Western Railway line, forming an imposing feature on the line, and is one of a group of bridges on the section of that railway line that passes through County Kildare. The construction of the arch that has retained its original shape is of technical and engineering merit. The bridge exhibits good quality stone masonry and fine, crisp joints. The bridge is of considerable historical and social significance as a reminder of the railway network development in Ireland, which brought about many technical advances and developed commercial activity in the mid to late nineteenth century.