Bridge in Clossagh More, County Monaghan

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Four-arch limestone railway bridge, built 1860, carrying embanked Shantonagh Junction to Cootehill line of Great Northern Railway over road and Dromore River. Now disused. Segmental arches, having dressed limestone abutments, rock-faced rusticated sandstone voussoirs and quoins, cut sandstone impost courses, and red brick soffits. Snecked dressed limestone walls, snecked dressed splayed flanking buttressing walls with rock-faced rusticated quoins, rock-faced rusticated coping stones.

This bridge is of architectural interest due to its high standard of design and execution, using both orthogonal and skew-laid brickwork in the soffits. The cut and carved masonry is typical of the skill involved in the execution of nineteenth-century railway structures, and the contrasting dressings and stone types to the south elevation are particularly pleasing. It is the largest bridge on the Cootehill Branch of the railway, and one of only two four-arch railway bridges in counties Monaghan or Louth. It is a visual reminder of the now disused railway, and makes a pleasing feature in the landscape with Ballynascarva Bridge beside it, and the nearby single-arch railway bridge.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 41402321

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