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bridge — GORTEENARD
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Single-arch masonry railway bridge, built c.1854, over the Portarlington to Tullamore section of the Athlone Branch of the Great Southern and Western Railway. Rock-faced limestone blocks, regularly coursed and with margined quoins to abutments. Semi-elliptical profile to arch with rusticated voussoirs. Spandrels and parapets with roughly dressed blocks and coped with finely dressed blocks. Deck is slightly curved and has ramped approaches.

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