Survey Data
Reg No
11903907
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1850 - 1890
Coordinates
272550, 182166
Date Recorded
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Date Updated
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Description
Two-arch coursed dressed granite railway bridge over river, c.1870, with rock-faced granite voussoirs and dressed stone coping. Coursed snecked granite walls. Coursed snecked granite parapet walls. Dressed stone coping. Replacement tubular hand rail, c.1990. Two elliptical arches on oblong pier. Rock-faced voussoirs. Rock-faced soffits. Sited spanning Lerr River as part of Great Southern and Western Railway line (Cherryville Junction to Kilkenny).
Appraisal
This railway bridge is a fine stone structure built as part of the Great South and Western Railway line (Cherryville Junction to Kilkenny) forming an imposing feature on the Lerr River and is one of a group of bridges on the section of that railway line that passes through County Kildare. The construction of the arches that have retained their 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.