Kilnap Viaduct | |
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Coordinates | 51°55′36″N 8°29′15″W / 51.9268°N 8.4875°W |
Carries | Dublin–Cork railway line |
Crosses | Glennamought River |
Locale | Cork, Ireland |
Maintained by | Transport Infrastructure Ireland |
Characteristics | |
Material | Limestone |
No. of spans | 8 |
History | |
Construction end | 1845 |
Opened | 28 September 1848 |
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The Kilnap Viaduct (known colloquially as the Eight-Arch Bridge) is an eight-arch railway viaduct located in Cork, Ireland. Built in 1845, it carried the Great Southern & Western Railway line to Cork over the valley of Glennamought River and Mallow Road. [1] The viaduct is listed as a protected structure by Cork City Council. [2]
The eight-arch railway viaduct features rock-faced ashlar limestone piers with a cut stone impost supporting squared coursed limestone spandrels with dressed limestone string course. It has rock-faced limestone voussoirs leading to round-headed arches, ashlar limestone vaults to barrels and a squared coursed limestone parapet with cut stone coping. [1] The viaduct was built by William Dargan. [3]
As built, it was 420 ft long and 90 ft high. [4]
Further south is the Kilnap viaduct shown under construction by Dargan in 1849. It is still in use today, as is the 8-arched viaduct at Monard near Rathpeacon outside Cork.