bridge

Single-arch railway bridge, built 1889, carrying road over former Great Northern Railway line. Elliptical arch, flanked by pier buttresses. Rock-faced rusticated stone walls, piers, and parapet walls, having cut-stone string course and impost course and margined quoins to piers. Red brick archivolt laid in soldier courses, skewly-laid vault to soffit of arch. Moulded brick copings to parapets. Concrete wing walls to east bank of north elevation and west bank of south elevation.

This well-constructed bridge over the former Great Northern Railway line has an impressive and unusual brick vault to the soffit, indicating its relatively late construction. It continues a tradition of well-designed and constructed railway infrastructure using traditional arch methods. Poet Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67) was born near here (in Mucker townland), attended the nearby schoolhouse and mentions the railway in passing in several of his poems including 'The Great Hunger' and 'In Memory of my Mother', bringing cultural significance to this bridge.