Bridge in Caraun

Single-arch limestone road bridge, built c.1860, over disused Athenry to Claremorris railway line. Symmetrical plan about north-south axis. Coursed squared and snecked rubble stone rising uninterrupted to parapets with squared and perpendicular snecked rubble stone flanking walls with round-headed coping stones to east and west. Segmental arch with cut-stone voussoirs to arch rings. Squared and snecked stone to spandrel panels with flat coping stones to parapets. Metal railings from end of bridge to adjoining fields.

This bridge is a typical example of mid-nineteenth-century railway engineering and is still in use to carry traffic over the railway line laid by the Great Southern and Western Railway Company to carry the Athenry to Claremorris line and which closed in 1975. The bridge is an important part of the industrial heritage of the area and, though simply detailed, is of technical merit.