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Bridge in Ballylin West

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Bridge in Ballylin West
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Single-arch limestone railway bridge, built 1869, carrying road over Ennis Junction to Athenry railway line. Snecked rock-faced rusticated walls, piers, parapet walls and abutment walls, recent rendered coping to parapet walls. Ashlar soffit. Segmental arch with rock-faced rusticated voussoirs. Abutment walls with…

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Single-arch limestone railway bridge, built 1869, carrying road over Ennis Junction to Athenry railway line. Snecked rock-faced rusticated walls, piers, parapet walls and abutment walls, recent rendered coping to parapet walls. Ashlar soffit. Segmental arch with rock-faced rusticated voussoirs. Abutment walls with slight batter.
An impression of strength is given by the use of heavy rustication in this railway bridge. It displays the quality of the engineering and stone masonry skills employed at the time. It forms part of a larger group of bridges along the Ennis Junction to Athenry railway line and is a reminder of the expansion of the railway network throughout Ireland in the late nineteenth century.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30410405

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Martin Kerans, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Photographer not named by Ardrahan GAA, ardrahangaa.ie
  • Roger Diel, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • NateBergin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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