
What is recorded here
The Foot bridge in Lisnaboley throws a proud humpback over a railway now thick with growth. All that climbing to let a train underneath, and the nettles have inherited the clearance. Naturally, they've taken the full height; give a nettle an inch.
Single-arch hump back footbridge over railway line, extant 1894; opened 1895. Now disused. Creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls with lichen-covered rock faced cut-limestone coping to parapets. Single segmental arch with red brick header bond voussoirs. Sited spanning overgrown railway line with unkempt embankments to railway line.
A footbridge identified as an integral component of the late nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of the outskirts of Claremorris 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 arch making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the now-neglected railway line.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 31310109
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