Cloonbonny Bridge, County Westmeath

What is recorded here

Single-arched railway bridge, built c.1859, carrying road over former Great Southern and Great Western Railway Company’s Portarlington to Athlone railway line. Still in active use. Constructed of snecked rusticated limestone with rock-faced limestone voussoirs to the arch, ashlar limestone string course at road level and ashlar limestone coping over parapet walls. Located to the southeast of Athlone.

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 Great Southern and Western Railway Company to serve the Portarlington to Athlone line, which opened in 1859. This bridge is one of a number of similar bridges in the area associated with this company. This bridge is well-built using snecked rusticated limestone, a typical feature of mid nineteenth-century engineering projects of this nature.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15402906

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