Survey Data
Reg No
12317082
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1845 - 1855
Coordinates
257781, 141503
Date Recorded
18/05/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch railway bridge over road, opened 1850. Broken coursed cut-limestone walls (including curved abutment walls) with rock-faced limestone ashlar pies, and cut-limestone stringcourse supporting parapet having cut-limestone coping (cut-limestone coping to abutment walls) with replacement steel railings over. Single segmental arch springing from cut-limestone stepped stringcourse with rock-faced limestone ashlar voussoirs, and red brick Running bond soffits in diagonal courses. Sited spanning road.
Appraisal
An elegantly-composed bridge forming an important element of the civil engineering heritage of Thomastown having been opened as part of the Waterford and Maryborough [Portlaoise] Branch extension of the Great Southern and Western Railway line by the Waterford and Kilkenny Railway Company. Rock-faced detailing exhibiting high quality stone masonry contributes an appealing textured visual effect in an otherwise austerely monochromatic composition.