Newhouse Bridge

Single-arch cut-limestone road bridge over railway line, opened 1848. Coursed tooled cut-limestone walls with tapered abutment walls having tooled limestone ashlar quoins, cut-limestone outer piers, cut-limestone stringcourse supporting parapet having cut-limestone chamfered coping, and random rubble limestone flanking walls having rubble limestone coping. Single elliptical arch with rock-faced cut-limestone surround, tooled cut-limestone stringcourse to spring of arch, rock-faced cut-limestone voussoirs, and tooled cut-limestone soffits. Sited spanning railway line with grass banks to railway line.

Constructed entirely in locally-sourced limestone exhibiting the particularly fine stone masonry characteristic of such projects an elegantly-appointed bridge represents an important element of the mid nineteenth-century transport heritage of County Kilkenny on account of the associations with the development of the Waterford and Maryborough [Portlaoise] Branch extension of the Great Southern and Western Railway line by the Waterford and Kilkenny Railway Company.