Bridge in Dunsany, County Meath

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Bridge in Dunsany still plants its great rough limestone shoulders over a railway with no trains. A bouncer outside a closed dance hall couldn’t look more determined to refuse admission.

Single-arch rock-faced limestone railway bridge with string courses and copings, built c.1850, carrying the road over the former railway track which is now disused.

The masonry treatment of this railway bridge adds textural interest to the site. The masonry was clearly executed by skilled craftsmen. This bridge forms part of a group with the related railway structures along this disused line.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 14403709

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
C O'Flanagan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Thomas Nugent, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
C O'Flanagan, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
William Murphy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Neil Forrester, Co.Meath, Ireland. http://neil.forrester.ie, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
Anthony Foster, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Patrick Brown, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Roger Culos, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0