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Ballyforan Bridge

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Ballyforan Bridge
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What is recorded here

Thirteen-arch road bridge, built c.1820, with random coursed stone walls. Cut limestone voussoirs to segmental arch-rings and V-cutwaters up and down stream. Cast-iron tie-bars. Ballyforan Bridge crosses the River Suck, the boarder between Counties Roscommon and Galway.
Ballyforan Bridge is a robust and handsome masonry viaduct, which is a reminder of the engineering achievements of the local craftsmen in the nineteenth century. It is a substantial road bridge and forms an important crossing for this boarder village, giving access to Galway from Roscommon.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 31821003

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  • Brian Lawless / Sportsfile, as credited in the Ulster GAA caption, ulster.gaa.ie
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
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