Bridge in Garrandarragh, County Kilkenny

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Single-arch railway bridge over road, opened 1853. Coursed rock-faced cut-limestone walls with buttresses having cut-limestone coping, and cut-limestone stringcourse supporting cut-limestone blocking course with sections of replacement steel railings, c.1975, over. Single segmental arch resting on tooled cut-limestone…

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A well-composed bridge forming an important element of the civil engineering 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. The construction in rock-faced limestone produces an appealing textured visual effect in the street scene while finely tooled limestone ashlar accents display high quality stone masonry.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12326001

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Fraughan Loop LoopWalking route · 2.1 miTom: I’m here to help · Computer-made picture. It does not show this walking route.

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Tory HillMountain / peak · 2.3 mi

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Dragonz DenChildren's playground · 7.0 miTom: I’m here to help · Computer-made picture. It does not show this playground.

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