bridge

Single-arch railway bridge over road, opened 1850. Broken coursed cut-limestone walls (including curved abutment walls) with rock-faced limestone ashlar pies, and cut-limestone stringcourse supporting parapet having cut-limestone coping (cut-limestone coping to abutment walls) with replacement steel railings over. Single segmental arch springing from cut-limestone stepped stringcourse with rock-faced limestone ashlar voussoirs, and red brick Running bond soffits in diagonal courses. Sited spanning road.

An elegantly-composed bridge forming an important element of the civil engineering heritage of Thomastown having been opened as part of the Waterford and Maryborough [Portlaoise] Branch extension of the Great Southern and Western Railway line by the Waterford and Kilkenny Railway Company. Rock-faced detailing exhibiting high quality stone masonry contributes an appealing textured visual effect in an otherwise austerely monochromatic composition.