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Bridge in Spittaltown
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Single-arched railway bridge, built c.1863, carrying road over former Midland Great Western Railway Streamstown Junction to Clara railway line. No longer in active use. Constructed of rusticated limestone with rock-faced voussoirs to arch and ashlar limestone coping over parapets. Shallow buttresses to east side.…

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Single-arched railway bridge, built c.1863, carrying road over former Midland Great Western Railway Streamstown Junction to Clara railway line. No longer in active use. Constructed of rusticated limestone with rock-faced voussoirs to arch and ashlar limestone coping over parapets. Shallow buttresses to east side. Located to the north of Horseleap.
A robust and elegantly-appointed railway bridge representing an important element of the transport and civil engineering heritage of County Westmeath. This bridge was originally built by the Midland and Great Western Railway Company to serve the Streamstown Junction to Clara line which opened 1863, closed in 1960 with the track lifted in 1966. This bridge is one of a number of similar bridges in the area associated with this company. This bridge is well-built using rusticated local limestone, a typical feature of mid nineteenth-century engineering projects of this nature.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15403131

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