Survey Data
Reg No
12404313
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Viaduct
In Use As
Viaduct
Date
1850 - 1855
Coordinates
258450, 115183
Date Recorded
13/12/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Nine-span railway viaduct over river, opened 1853. Coursed rock-faced cut-limestone abutment walls with batter, carved cut-limestone stringcourse, and carved cut-limestone stringcourse to parapet supporting limestone ashlar blocking course. Series of nine flat spans with lattice girders on two pairs of paired cast-iron pylons having cross girders, and iron railings to parapet. Sited spanning Black Water River with grass banks to river.
Appraisal
Making a dramatic statement rising above the Black Water River valley an elegantly-appointed railway viaduct built by Sir William Arrol (1839-1913) and Company of Glasgow forms a vital element of the civil engineering heritage of County Kilkenny on account of the associations with the development of the Waterford and Limerick Branch of the Great Southern and Western Railway line by the Waterford and Limerick Railway Company. Exhibiting high quality stone masonry the robust visual effect achieved by the rock-faced detailing is pleasantly off-set by the refined, almost delicate quality of the open iron work.