What is recorded here

Single-arch masonry railway bridge, opened in 1859, carries a road over the Portarlington Athlone railway line. It was erected by the Great Southern and Western Railway Company. Rock-faced limestone blocks regularly laid to abutments and spandrels with rusticated quoins. Segmental profiled arch with rusticated and margined voussoirs. Dressed limestone string course. Rock-faced sloping wing walls.

This railway bridge exhibits high quality of construction and detailing. It is enhanced, further, by its promiximity to the railway station and its high visibility.

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