What is recorded here
Bridge in Commons spreads its stone walls wide where the Patrickswell branch met the Dublin–Cork railway, like a man keeping two sides of a family apart at a wedding. Nobody’s getting through till the business about the field is settled.
Single-arch humpback limestone railway bridge, built c. 1862, with rusticated walls with dressed stringcourses, impost course and copings. Rusticated voussoirs to segmental-headed arches. Ashlar splayed abutments to north and south elevations.
The Great Southern and Western Railway Company erected a number of high quality railway bridges in the nineteenth century. This bridge is no exception, displaying high quality craftsmanship apparent in the rusticated walls and ashlar abutments. This bridge forms part of the Charleville to Patrickswell line and was opened in 1862 by the CLDR (Cork Limerick Direct Railway). It was also part of the important Charleville Junction where the Charleville and Patrickswell branch joined the main Dublin to Cork line.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21904706
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