Survey Data
Reg No
12317084
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1845 - 1850
Coordinates
257861, 141771
Date Recorded
18/05/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch road bridge over railway line, opened 1848. Broken coursed cut-limestone walls (including to abutment walls having tapered piers) with rock-faced cut-limestone quoins to piers, and cut-limestone stringcourse supporting limestone ashlar parapet having cut-limestone coping. Single elliptical arch springing from cut-limestone stringcourse with rock-faced cut-limestone surround, rock-faced limestone ashlar voussoirs, and cut-limestone soffits. Sited spanning railway line with grass banks to railway line.
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.