bridge

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.