Survey Data
Reg No
41302002
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
Date
1850 - 1860
Coordinates
268284, 335726
Date Recorded
13/10/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Limestone railway bridge, built c.1855, over disused Great Northern railway line, with three-centred arch, quarry-faced ashlar to both elevations, projecting ashlar string course and heavy punch-dressed copings to parapets which have roughly squared rubble to interior roadside elevations continuing on all sides which continue along adjacent roadsides. Projecting battered engaged piers flank arch opening which has block-and-start quarry-faced ashlar voussoirs and brick soffit springing from finely punch-dressed ashlar impost on stone-built abutments.
Appraisal
This functional yet graceful mid-nineteenth-century bridge was part of the Great Northern Railway network which reached Monaghan Town in 1858. As well as providing an impressive Victorian architectural statement on this northern part of Monaghan town, this structure provides a reminder of the nineteenth-century industrial and transport heritage of the area and stands intact.