Survey Data
Reg No
12326016
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1850 - 1855
Coordinates
256470, 123407
Date Recorded
05/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch cut-limestone railway bridge over road, opened 1853. Coursed rock-faced cut-limestone walls (including to tapered buttressed abutment walls) with cast-iron tie plates, and cut-limestone coping to parapets supporting replacement steel railings. Single segmental arch with limestone ashlar stringcourse to spring of arch, cut-limestone voussoirs, and squared rubble stone soffits having remains of render over. Sited spanning road with random rubble stone retaining walls to banks having rubble stone coping.
Appraisal
An elegantly-composed bridge representing an important element of the mid nineteenth-century transport heritage of County Kilkenny on account of 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. Exhibiting the particularly high quality stone masonry associated with such projects the robust rock-faced detailing lends a pleasing textured visual effect to the composition while refined dressings further enhance the aesthetic appeal of the site.