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Bridge in Ardroe

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Bridge in Ardroe
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Bridge in Ardroe makes the road climb a hump while the railway slips underneath. You can see who won that argument: the train stays level and everyone else has to get up out of its chair.

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Single-arch hump back road bridge over railway line, opened 1862; extant 1894. Tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls between tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone battered abutment walls with lichen-covered rock faced cut-limestone coping to parapets. Single segmental arch with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning railway line with unkempt embankments to railway line.
A bridge identified as an integral component of the mid nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of the outskirts of Claremorris on account of the connections with the development of the Mayo Branch of the Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR) line (opened 1862) by the Great Northern and Western Railway (GNWR) Company with the architectural value of the composition confirmed not only by the rock faced surface finish demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arch making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the railway line.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 31310107

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Paul Cowan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Christian Pirkl, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 at; Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Geograph contributor · CC BY-SA 2.0; David Purchase, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5

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