Bridge in Collegeland

Single-arch rubble stone road bridge over railway line, c.1850, with cut-stone voussoirs, cut-stone stringcourse and rubble stone parapet walls having cut-stone coping. Irregular coursed squared rubble stone walls. Rubble stone dressings including piers flanking arch. Cut-stone stringcourse. Coursed squared rubble stone to parapet wall with cut-stone coping. Single round arch. Cut-stone voussoirs. Cut-stone stringcourse to spring of arch. Squared rubble stone soffits. Sited spanning Midland Great Western Railway line.

This bridge is a fine rubble stone structure that forms an imposing feature on the Midland Great Western Railway line and is one of a group of bridges on the section of that railway line that passes through County Kildare. The construction of the arch that has retained its original shape is of technical and engineering merit. The bridge exhibits good quality stone masonry and fine, crisp joints. The bridge is of considerable historical and social significance as a reminder of the railway network development in Ireland, which brought about many technical advances and developed commercial activity in the mid to late nineteenth century. Replaced with precast concrete structure. (2014)