What is recorded here
Single-arch railway bridge, c.1859, with rusticated limestone piers, parapets and voussoirs with dressed string course and copings. Located to the west of Athlone carrying Lower Road over railway line.
A good quality robust railway bridge with rusticated masonry, typical of mid nineteenth-century railway architecture. This bridge was originally built as part of the Great Southern and Western Railway Company's Portarlington to Athlone Midland line, which opened in October 1859.
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