Kilgarvan Bridge

 road bridge, listed building / architectural heritage

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Single-arched railway bridge, built c.1859, carrying road over former Great Southern and Great Western Railway Company's Portarlington to Athlone railway line. Still in active use. Bridge crosses railway lines at a slightly skewed angle.
A robust and elegantly-appointed railway bridge representing an important element of the transport and civil engineering heritage of County Westmeath. This bridge was originally built by the Great Southern and Western Railway Company to serve the Portarlington to Athlone line, which opened in 1859. This bridge is well-built using snecked rusticated limestone, a typical feature of mid nineteenth-century engineering projects of this nature. Kilgarvan Bridge is an attractive feature in the landscape to the southeast of Athlone.