Foot bridge in Newtown (killinthomas Ed), County Kildare

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Two-span cast-iron footbridge over river, c.1880, probably originally two-arch on stone piers. Renovated and remodelled, c.1980, with cast-iron span added. Cast-iron girder span, c.1980, with iron mesh path and iron railings. Rubble stone piers (one to centre with one to each bank to north-east and to south-west).…

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This bridge is an attractive footbridge that forms a subtle feature on the Slate River and is one of a group of bridges (both footbridges and road bridges) on the section of that river that passes through County Kildare. Probably originally a two-arch rubble stone structure, the bridge was extensively remodelled in the late twentieth century with a cast-iron girder span replacing the original crossing – the replacement span is of some technical or engineering merit as a late twentieth-century method of forming a crossing over a river.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11810020

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