- Type
- Bridge
- NIAH reg. no.
- 14801002
Prospect Bridge
About Prospect Bridge
The National Inventory rates Prospect Bridge Regional, one of 2 in Ballycumber. Its record dates Prospect Bridge to 1855–1865. One other place on the record stands within 400 m.
This fine, unaltered railway bridge, is a good example of mid nineteenth-century railway engineering. Its skew span, where the soffit blocks are also skew, heightens the bridge's visual appeal along with its rusticared walls and tooled stone coping of the parapet.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 14801002 · CC BY 4.0 · Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
NIAHRead its National Inventory recordThe full description and appraisal, the survey photo and the map · 14801002↗Regional is the National Inventory’s rating for a building of significance in its region; most rated buildings carry it.
Make it a walk: 2 historic places in about 5 minutes
Ballycumber · about 100 m on foot, as the crow flies
- 1Prospect BridgeStart here
- 2Ballycumber Railway StationRegional rating (NIAH) · next door
1 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Near Ballycumber: more walls, gates and bridges on the record
All 8 are pictured and within 40 km. Just 13 km away stands Srah Bridge, in Tullamore. The list reaches Digby Bridge in Tullamore, 17 km away.
Questions about Prospect Bridge
Is Prospect Bridge on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 14801002).
Can you visit Prospect Bridge?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
When was Prospect Bridge built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1855–1865.
Is Prospect Bridge protected?
Being on the National Inventory or the Sites and Monuments Record is a record, not protection by itself: buildings are protected by their council’s Record of Protected Structures, which each council keeps and no national open list gathers, so this page can’t say which are on it.
Source: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage and Sites and Monuments Record, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata (CC0).
Sources: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (buildingsofireland.ie) · Wikidata (CC0) for other names and articles. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
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