page_title: Kilmacthomas
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Kilmacthomas / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Coill Mhic Thomáisín (Kilmacthomas): Railway viaduct The construction of this fine 8-arched curved viaduct to carry the Waterford to Cork railway over the River Mahon was completed in 1878. The railway line closed in 1982.
context_page_description: Kilmacthomas or Kilmactomas, often referred to locally as "Kilmac", is a town on the River Mahon in County Waterford, Ireland. It lies on the R677, a high way north of the N25 national primary road from Dungarvan to Waterford.
context_section_description: During the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, in December 1649, Oliver Cromwell, marched from Waterford to Kilmacthomas during the Siege of Waterford.  The weather was wet and stormy and the river was in flood, so the army couldn't cross. Two nights were spent in the field that is now the public park. Cromwell was said to have described Waterford county on his march from Waterford to Kilmacthomas in the winter of 1649 as being a craggy and desolate place.
  Daniel O'Connell passed through Kilmac' on a campaign trail and he wrote:
  We breakfasted at Kilmacthomas, a town belonging to the Beresfords but the people belong to us. They came out to meet us with green boughs and such shouting you can have no idea of. I harangued them from the window of the inn, and we had a good deal of laughing at the bloody Beresfords. Judge what the popular feeling must be when in this, a Beresford town, every man their tenant, we had such a reception.
  In the early 1870s the influence of the industrial revolution reached Kilmacthomas when the Waterford to Mallow railroad came to town. There is an example of a stone viaduct in the town spanning the Mahon River. Although the last passenger services ceased in the late 1960s the railway continued to operate with the haulage of oil and magnesite for another couple of decades. This railway is now disused. The viaduct at Kilmacthomas has been preserved, and is part of the Waterford Greenway, which opened in 2017.
caption: Kilmacthomas viaduct
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