What is recorded here
Bridge in Plaster lets cars over its head and Dublin–Belfast trains under its chin, with enormous stone shoulders braced on either side. It’s doing the job of the eldest cousin in a family photograph: hold everyone up, look respectable, and don’t you dare move.
Single-arch stone road-over-railway bridge, built c. 1880. Squared-and-snecked limestone walling to spandrels and parapet, ashlar string course and ashlar coping to parapet. Segmental-headed arch, rock-faced voussoirs, flanking engaged rock-faced pilasters. Bitmac surface to road.
This masculine bridge, spanning the former Great Northern Railway line, now the main Dublin-Belfast line, stands as testament to the architects, engineers and stone masons who built the Great Northern Railway. Built in traditional construction methods it is typical in style to late-Victorian industrial building and the varied stone treatments show the skills of the stone masons involved.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 13900410
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