Bridge in Gowlan West, County Galway

What is recorded here

Bridge in Gowlan West has four rows of red brick dressing up an arch that's been filled in on one side. That's a fierce amount of lipstick for someone refusing to open the door.

Single-arch railway bridge, built c.1895, with sloping abutments to each elevation. Now disused. Irregularly coursed roughly dressed limestone block construction with round arch to elevations with four courses of red brick voussoirs, and having red brick soffits. Rock-faced string course to base of parapet and to revetment copings with dressed margins. Concrete coping to parapets. South elevation arch infilled.

This well constructed bridge is one of many along this disused railway line and attests to the expansion of the communications and transport networks in this region in the late nineteenth and the early part of the twentieth centuries. The skilled workmanship is obvious in both the string course and red brick voussoirs.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30403601

This does not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.