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Bridge in Ballyredding North

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Bridge in Ballyredding North
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Bridge in Ballyredding North humps the road over two flat railway openings. It has the look of an argument settled by weight: “Why should I go over you?” asked the road. The train said nothing, being a train, and won.

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Two-span rubble stone hump back road bridge over railway line, opened 1848. Broken coursed tooled cut-limestone walls with rock-faced cut-limestone piers, and limestone ashlar stringcourse supporting parapets having cut-limestone coping. Pair of flat spans with limestone ashlar lintels supported on post. Sited spanning railway line with grass banks to railway line.
An attractive bridge of civil engineering heritage significance for the associations with the development of the Waterford and Maryborough [Portlaoise] Branch extension of the Great Southern and Western Railway line by the Waterford and Kilkenny Railway Company.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12312001

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; R. A. Nonenmacher, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Paddy O'Shea, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Humphrey Bolton, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Sabrina O Brien, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Eirian Evans, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Dave Henderson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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