Bridge in Clonshire Beg, County Limerick

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Bridge in Clonshire Beg has rough walls, smooth edges and arch stones that go rough again. It's the stonework equivalent of asking three brothers how a fight started: every finish is different, and all three are staying.

Single-arch limestone railway bridge, built c. 1856. Rubble stone walls having cut stone parapets and stringcourses. Rubble stone buttresses to east and west elevations and rusticated voussoirs to segmental-headed arch.

This handsome bridge is one of a group of structures which were once part of the Limerick to Tralee line built by the Great Southern and Western Railway company. Its skillfully executed stonework, which displays a variety of finishes is testament to high quality railway bridge building in the mid nineteenth century.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21902102

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