Survey Data
Reg No
12312001
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1845 - 1850
Coordinates
255912, 149354
Date Recorded
18/05/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Two-span rubble stone hump back road bridge over railway line, opened 1848. Broken coursed tooled cut-limestone walls with rock-faced cut-limestone piers, and limestone ashlar stringcourse supporting parapets having cut-limestone coping. Pair of flat spans with limestone ashlar lintels supported on post. Sited spanning railway line with grass banks to railway line.
Appraisal
An attractive bridge of civil engineering heritage significance for the associations with the development of the Waterford and Maryborough [Portlaoise] Branch extension of the Great Southern and Western Railway line by the Waterford and Kilkenny Railway Company.