Survey Data
Reg No
14801002
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1855 - 1865
Coordinates
220263, 231597
Date Recorded
04/10/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch masonry railway bridge, built c.1859, by the Great Southern and Western Railway Company. It carries a minor road from Ballycumber over the Portarlington Athlone railway line. Abutments of rusticated limestone blocks, laid to courses and with tooled quoin edges. Segmetal profile to arch. Deck is slightly curved. Spandrels and parapets are of coursed blocks with plain faces. Rusticated string course.
Appraisal
This fine, unaltered railway bridge, is a good example of mid nineteenth-century railway engineering. Its skew span, where the soffit blocks are also skew, heightens the bridge's visual appeal along with its rusticared walls and tooled stone coping of the parapet. The associated station, formerly known as Prospect Railway Station was renamed Ballycumber in 1890, was originally opened in 1862 and closed in 1963.