Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Railway bridge
Chetwynd,rochfordstown, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Chetwynd,rochfordstown
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Chetwynd Viaduct (1933)
- Coordinates
- 51.86065, -8.52796
- SMR number
- CO086-002----
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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
Impressive viaduct of wrought and cast iron supported on cut limestone pillars, 'completed in 1849 for the Cork and Bandon railway' (Barry 1985,33). Barry also notes that 'there are 4 spans of 33 metres each' and that it is 'at a height of 30 metres over the main Cork to Bandon road'. Now disused since line closed in 1961.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Armorial plaque (present location)under 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.