Survey Data
Reg No
11903714
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1840 - 1860
Coordinates
271795, 186612
Date Recorded
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Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch dressed limestone railway bridge over road, c.1850, with rock-faced limestone voussoirs, cut-stone stringcourse and dressed stone coping. Coursed snecked limestone walls. Cut-stone stringcourse. Coursed snecked limestone parapet walls. Dressed stone coping. Single segmental arch. Rock-faced voussoirs. Rock-faced soffits. Sited spanning road as part of Great Southern and Western Railway line (Cherryville Junction to Kilkenny).
Appraisal
This railway bridge is a fine stone structure that forms an imposing feature on the Great South and Western Railway line (Cherryville Junction to Kilkenny) 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 encouraged the development of commercial activity in the mid to late nineteenth century.