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Bladderry Bridge

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Bladderry Bridge
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Single-arched railway bridge, built c.1859, carrying road over former Great Southern and Great Western Railway Company’s Portarlington to Athlone railway line. Still in active use. Constructed of coursed rusticated limestone with an ashlar limestone string course at road level, ashlar limestone coping over parapet…

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Single-arched railway bridge, built c.1859, carrying road over former Great Southern and Great Western Railway Company’s Portarlington to Athlone railway line. Still in active use. Constructed of coursed rusticated limestone with an ashlar limestone string course at road level, ashlar limestone coping over parapet walls and brick voussoirs to the arch. Piers to either end of parapet walls (north and south). Located to the southwest of Moate.
A robust and elegantly-appointed railway bridge representing an important element of the transport and civil engineering heritage of County Westmeath. This bridge was originally built by the Great Southern and Western Railway Company to serve the Portarlington to Athlone line, which opened in 1859. This bridge is one of a number of similar bridges in the area associated with this company. This bridge is well-built using bold rusticated limestone, a typical feature of mid nineteenth-century engineering projects of this nature.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15403606

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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