Prospect Bridge, County Offaly

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Single-arch masonry railway bridge, built c.1859, by the Great Southern and Western Railway Company. It carries a minor road from Ballycumber over the Portarlington Athlone railway line. Abutments of rusticated limestone blocks, laid to courses and with tooled quoin edges. Segmetal profile to arch. Deck is slightly…

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This fine, unaltered railway bridge, is a good example of mid nineteenth-century railway engineering. Its skew span, where the soffit blocks are also skew, heightens the bridge's visual appeal along with its rusticared walls and tooled stone coping of the parapet. The associated station, formerly known as Prospect Railway Station was renamed Ballycumber in 1890, was originally opened in 1862 and closed in 1963.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 14801002

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