
What is recorded here
Two-arch railway bridge over road, opened 1895; extant 1895. Closed, 1975. Now disused. Tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls between tuck pointed snecked rock faced battered abutment walls with rock faced cut-limestone stringcourses supporting parapets having drag edged rock faced cut-limestone coping. Single segmental arch (south-west) with red brick header bond voussoirs. Single round arch (north-east) with red brick header bond voussoirs. Sited spanning road with unkempt grass embankments to road.
A bridge identified as an integral component of the late nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of Swinford on account of the connections with the development of the Waterford Limerick and Western Railway (WLWR) line by the Waterford Limerick and Western Railway (WLWR) Company, the so-called "Burma Road" opened (1895) in response to Arthur James Balfour's Light Railways (Ireland) Act, 1889, with the architectural value of the composition confirmed not only by the rock faced surface finish demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arches making a pleasing visual statement in an urban street scene.
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