Bridge in Limerick Municipal Borough, County Limerick

What is recorded here

Bridge in Limerick Municipal Borough has wildly craggy stones on top, each tidied around the edges. Even its roughness has a border, like an angry letter ruled in pencil before anyone was allowed to start shouting.

Cut stone railway bridge, built c. 1860, carrying Corbally Road on a north-south axis over the Limerick to Sligo Great Southern and Western Railway line. Segmental single arch bridge of coursed and squared rock-faced limestone. Tooled to the soffit with voussoirs to the arches having drafted margins. Squared coursed and snecked rock-faced facing stone to abutments. Capping stones to the parapets have an exaggerated rock face also with drafted margins.

A well-proportioned and well-executed stone bridge displaying an array of stone masonry skills, while still serving its original function and enhancing the appeal of the area.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21505007

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