Survey Data
Reg No
22205903
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1845 - 1850
Coordinates
192499, 143059
Date Recorded
06/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch railway bridge, dated 1848, carrying the Dublin-Cork railway line over local road. Rusticated limestone façades and voussoirs to segmental arch and having cut limestone coping with recent concrete block heightening of parapet wall. Flanking abutment walls of tooled snecked limestone construction, with commemmorative plaque to south-west.
Appraisal
This imposing single-arch railway bridge was built of locally quarried limestone in 1848 to carry the Dublin-Cork railway line, and is recorded as having suffered damage during the War of Independence. The bridge exhibits fine rusticated limestone and is historically and socially important as a physical reminder of both the industrial progress of the early nineteenth century and the fight for independence in the early twentieth century.