Overview
bridge — Ballinrobe is recorded as bridge in Mayo. Single-arch road bridge over canal, begun 1849 Part ivy-covered tuck pointed drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar piers with lichen-covered tooled cut-limestone "Torus" stringcourses supporting parapets having drag edged tooled cut-limestone coping.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Single-arch road bridge over canal, begun 1849
People and work
The saved account records: Part ivy-covered tuck pointed drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar piers with lichen-covered tooled cut-limestone "Torus" stringcourses supporting parapets having drag edged tooled cut-limestone coping.
How it changed
The saved account records: Single segmental arch with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar radiating voussoirs.
What survives
The saved account records: Sited spanning canalised Robe River with retaining wall to canal having tooled cut-limestone coping.
Why it mattered
bridge — Ballinrobe matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A bridge identified as an integral component of the mid nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of south County Mayo on account of the connections with the county-wide programme of famine relief drainage works completed under the Drainage (Ireland) Act, 1846, with the architectural value of the composition, one sometimes known as "Barrack Bridge" (Twentieth Report 1852, 150), confirmed not only by the rock faced surface finish offset by "sparrow pecked" sheer limestone dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arch making a pleasing visual statement at a… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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