Survey Data
Reg No
14917032
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Scientific, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1830 - 1840
Coordinates
239394, 227749
Date Recorded
04/02/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch masonry bridge, built c.1835, carrying accommodation track over Kilbeggan branch of the Grand Canal. Regularly coursed, dressed limestone blocks. Soffit is of dressed stone blocks and the voussoirs are of finely dressed stone. A towpath runs through the east side. Parapets project from spandrels and are of finely dressed limestone blocks to their outside faces and squared rubble to the insides. String course across face to terminal piers. Humped deck and ramped approaches.
Appraisal
Ton's Bridge is part of a series of canal bridges of high quality masonry. It is a highly visible and postive addition to the canalscape.