Survey Data
Reg No
14802026
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1855 - 1860
Coordinates
225550, 232202
Date Recorded
28/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch masonry railway bridge, opened in 1859, carries a road over the Portarlington Athlone railway line. It was erected by the Great Southern and Western Railway Company. Rock-faced limestone blocks regularly laid to abutments and spandrels with rusticated quoins. Segmental profiled arch with rusticated and margined voussoirs. Dressed limestone string course. Rock-faced sloping wing walls.
Appraisal
This railway bridge exhibits high quality of construction and detailing. It is enhanced, further, by its promiximity to the railway station and its high visibility.