Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Railway bridge
Bridgetown Lower,kilcummer Lower, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bridgetown Lower,kilcummer Lower
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilcummer Viaduct (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.15269, -8.44943
- SMR number
- CO034-006----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, to N of Bridgetown Abbey (14381). Bridge carrying railway from top of limestone bluff on E side of Awbeg River across valley. Iron trellis bridge supported on 8 masonry piers. Piers (5.82m x 2.45m; c. 13.35m apart) of coursed limestone blocks with rock-faced finish; taper gently with height, reaching maximum height of over 15m. Abutments overgrown, E abutment atop limestone bluff. Line constructed after Mallow and Fermoy railway incorporated into Great Southern & Western Railway line in 1854; built by Dargan, railway line opened in 1860, closed 1967 (Rowledge 1995, 91) and line removed.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Railway bridgeunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.