Overview
bridge — AGHADRUMKEEN is recorded as bridge in Monaghan. Single-arch masonry railway bridge, built c.1855, carrying Dundalk and Enniskillen Branch of former Ulster Railway over road. Segmental arch with rock-faced rusticated sandstone voussoirs and dressed stone soffits.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Single-arch masonry railway bridge, built c.1855, carrying Dundalk and Enniskillen Branch of former Ulster Railway over road.
People and work
The saved account records: Segmental arch with rock-faced rusticated sandstone voussoirs and dressed stone soffits.
How it changed
The saved account records: Squared rubble stone parapet walls, with dressed stone copings.
What survives
The saved account records: Bridge carrying former railway over river to immediate west, having elliptical arch with rusticated sandstone voussoirs, coursed rubble parapets, stone soffit and plinth, and splayed abutment wall to north-east.
Why it mattered
bridge — AGHADRUMKEEN matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: The Dundalk-Enniskillen Branch of the Ulster Railway (later subsumed into the Great Northern Railway) opened from Ballybay to Newbliss on 14th August 1855, and was an important transport link between Louth, Monaghan and Fermanagh until its closure in 1959. This well-composed bridge is representative of the skill in engineering and stone-working in the nineteenth century, with rusticated stone voussoirs enhancing the wide elegant arch. The former railway bridges which carried the railway over this country road and river serve as a physical reminder of the extent and social and industrial importance of the railway… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
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