Suir Bridge

Nine-span railway bridge over river, opened 1906. Closed, 1982. Partly dismantled, 1995. Now disused. Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed rock faced limestone ashlar battered abutment walls between tuck pointed rock faced limestone ashlar battered piers with margined rock faced cut-granite chamfered stringcourses supporting parapets having margined rock faced cut-granite chamfered coping framing series of eight riveted steel truss girder sections on paired cylindrical piers. Sited spanning River Suir with unkempt banks to river.

A bridge erected by Sir William Arrol and Company (established 1873) of Glasgow to designs by Sir Benjamin Baker (1840-1907) of London (Engineering 25th May 1906, 673) identified as an important component of the early twentieth-century built heritage of County Waterford on account of the connections with the development of the Fishguard and Rosslare Railway (FRR) line opened (1906) by the Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours (FRRH) Company. NOTE: The rusting iron work of a central Pratt-type lattice girder "drawbridge", included to allay concerns that the bridge would impact on navigation to and from Waterford and subsequently removed (1995) following the closure of the bridge (1982), survives in a depot on the north bank of the River Suir [NG 659119-613631].