Bridge in Bennetstown, County Meath

What is recorded here

Bridge in Bennetstown still carries the road over a railway that has given up running. All that mighty limestone, and its remaining duty is to ensure the traffic doesn't collide with the absence of a train.

Single-arch rock-faced limestone railway bridge with string courses and copings, built c.1850, carrying the road over the former railway track which is now disused.

The masonry treatment of this railway bridge adds textural interest to the site. The robust rustication of the walls, voussoirs, string courses and copings was executed by skilled craftsmen. This bridge forms part of a group with the related railway structures along this disused line.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 14405001

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Pgakeenan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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