Survey Data
Reg No
11818063
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1860 - 1880
Coordinates
279644, 215599
Date Recorded
17/02/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch rubble road bridge over railway line, c.1870, with cut-stone voussoirs, cut-stone stringcourse, and cut-stone coping to parapet wall. Broken coursed squared rubble stone walls. Cut-stone stringcourse. Cut-stone coping to parapet walls. Single elliptical arch. Cut-stone voussoirs. Rubble stone soffits with render over. Sited spanning Great Southern and Western Railway line. Grass banks to railway line.
Appraisal
This bridge is a fine rubble stone bridge that forms an attractive feature on the Great Southern and Western Railway 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 in the late nineteenth century that necessitated the construction of such road bridges.