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Bridge in Laragh Beg

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Bridge in Laragh Beg
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Single-arch limestone road bridge, built c.1860, over disused Athenry to Claremorris railway line. Symmetrical plan about north-south axis. Coursed squared and snecked rubble stone walls rising uninterrupted to parapets with squared and perpendicular snecked rubble stone flanking walls having rounded coping stones to…

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Single-arch limestone road bridge, built c.1860, over disused Athenry to Claremorris railway line. Symmetrical plan about north-south axis. Coursed squared and snecked rubble stone walls rising uninterrupted to parapets with squared and perpendicular snecked rubble stone flanking walls having rounded coping stones to east and west. Segmental arch with cut-stone voussoirs to arch rings. Squared and snecked stone to spandrel panels with flat coping stones to parapets. Metal railings from end of bridge to adjoining fields.
This railway bridge was originally built by the Great Southern and Western Railway Company to carry the road across the Athenry to Claremorris line. Simply detailed, the bridge utilises local stone and remains unaltered from its original form. Though the track it was built to serve closed in 1975, the bridge remains a typical example of mid-nineteenth-century railway engineering and is important to the industrial heritage of the area.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30407104

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