Huband's Aqueduct

 listed building / architectural heritage, 1800s construction, viaduct (bridge construction style)

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It was named after Joseph Huband, a director in the Gand Canal Company around the time of the bridge's erection.
Triple-arched masonry aqueduct, built in 1803, carrying the Grand Canal over the River Tullamore. Abutments, piers and triangular profiled cutwaters of regularly laid dressed limestone blocks. Segmental arched profile with voussoirs of dressed stone. This aqueduct, which carries the Grand Canal over the Tullamore River, is a reminder of the engineering achievements of the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centuries. This section of the canal was opened in 1804. The detailing to the plaque, the arches and the stone cutwaters hightlight this aqueduct as a significant feature within the riverscape. It is one of three such aqueducts along the County Offaly stretch of the Grand Canal.