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Tong's Bridge

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Tong's Bridge
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Single-arch masonry bridge, built c.1835, carrying accommodation track over Kilbeggan branch of the Grand Canal. Regularly coursed, dressed limestone blocks. Soffit is of dressed stone blocks and the voussoirs are of finely dressed stone. A towpath runs through the east side. Parapets project from spandrels and are of finely dressed limestone blocks to their outside faces and squared rubble to the insides. String course across face to terminal piers. Humped deck and ramped approaches.
Ton's Bridge is part of a series of canal bridges of high quality masonry. It is a highly visible and postive addition to the canalscape.

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