Woodpole Bridge, County Meath

What is recorded here

Woodpole Bridge has a near lookalike down the old railway line, which must be fierce annoying in retirement. You spend a century holding yourself together, then every walker greets you with, ‘Didn’t we pass you already?’

Single-arch railway bridge, built c.1863, now disused. Snecked rock-faced limestone walls and parapet. Segmental-arch with ashlar limestone to arch ring.

The stonework of this bridge is highly finished and well executed. It forms part a group of railway structures in the area with a bridge of a similar design to the south-east. Both bridges crossed a section of the former Oldcastle Branch line of the Great Northern Railway.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 14307012

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