Bridge in Skehanagh, County Limerick

What is recorded here

The Bridge in Skehanagh wears brick battlements along just one side. From the south, you’re approaching a castle; from the other side, you’re crossing the railway. Clearly the invasion was expected from one direction and the bill from the other.

Single-arch railway bridge, erected in 1867, carrying road over the Limerick to Tralee railway branch of the Great Southern and Western Railway line. Rusticated limestone walls with rusticated parapet walls having brick crenellations to south parapet. Cut limestone stringcourse. Abutment walls having roughly dressed limestone and cut limestone copings. Round-headed arch with rusticated limestone voussoirs.

This simply proportioned bridge, retains the original profile of its arch. High quality craftsmanship is evident in the detailing of the rusticated limestone voussoirs and cut limestone coping. The bridge forms an integral part of the history of railway transport in the area being built by the Great Southern and Western Railway company.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21902814

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Created by Kglavin Modified Aug 2007 by Mike Christie, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Vadim Manuylov, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0