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Ballymascanlan Bridge

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Ballymascanlan Bridge
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Ballymascanlan Bridge at Proleek handed the cars over to a new bridge around 2000 and kept all four stone arches to itself. A fine retirement: lie across the river all day and watch your replacement get driven over.

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Four-span road-over-river stone bridge, built c. 1860. Squared-and-snecked rubble stone spandrels and parapet, squared rubble stone coping. Round-headed arches, squared rubble voussoirs. Double bitumen carriage, grass verges.
This stone bridge is a fine example of the engineering achievements in County Louth in the nineteenth century. This bridge was closed to vehicle traffic c. 2000 when traffic was diverted over a new bridge to the south.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 13900754

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Eric Jones, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; DarranRaff, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Digital Eye, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; TommyMurf, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; GilPe, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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