Bridge in Knockmoylan, County Kilkenny

What is recorded here

Bridge in Knockmoylan puts the railway above the road and trims the arrangement in granite. It’s the stone equivalent of buying an upstairs flat solely so you can stamp on the floor when a horse goes past.

Single-arch limestone railway bridge over road, opened 1853. Irregular coursed rock-faced cut-limestone walls (including to battered abutment walls) with cut-granite coping including to parapets supporting replacement steel railings. Single elliptical arch with tooled cut-limestone surround, tooled cut-granite stringcourse to spring of arch, cut-granite voussoirs, and tooled cut-limestone soffits. Sited spanning road with grass banks to road.

An elegantly-appointed bridge built as one of a pair (with 12403603/KK-36-03) forming part of a group of three railway bridges (with 12403604/KK-36-04) in the immediate locality representing an important element of the transport heritage of County Kilkenny on account of the associations with the development of the Waterford and Maryborough [Portlaoise] Branch extension of the Great Southern and Western Railway line by the Waterford and Kilkenny Railway Company. Constructed in locally-sourced County Kilkenny limestone the bridge exhibits the high quality stone masonry typically associated with such projects with particular emphasis on the Classically-derived cut-granite accents enlivening the architectural design value of the composition.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12403602

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