Bridge in Kilmalaw, County Galway

What is recorded here

Bridge in Kilmalaw has smooth stone parapets above great rough-faced supports. From the road, it's a respectable handshake; from the railway, it's the two brothers who come out when the handshake hasn't settled it.

Single-arch limestone railway bridge, built 1851, carrying minor road over the Galway to Dublin railway line. Rock-faced rusticated cut limestone abutments, dressed stone parapet walls.

The use of rock-faced limestone accentuates its imposing form and its construction is typical of mid-to late nineteenth-century railway engineering/architecture in Ireland. It was originally built by the Midland and Great Western Railway Company. A reminder of the engineering achievements of the great railway era.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30408703

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