bridge

Single-arch road bridge over railway line, opened 1848. Broken coursed cut-limestone walls (including to abutment walls having tapered piers) with rock-faced cut-limestone quoins to piers, and cut-limestone stringcourse supporting limestone ashlar parapet having cut-limestone coping. Single elliptical arch springing from cut-limestone stringcourse with rock-faced cut-limestone surround, rock-faced limestone ashlar voussoirs, and cut-limestone soffits. Sited spanning railway line with grass banks to railway line.

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.