Bridge in Ballynaraha, County Mayo

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Single-arch hump back road bridge over railway line, opened 1873; extant 1896. Part ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls with rock faced cut-limestone coping to parapets. Single segmental arch[?] with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning railway line with unkempt…

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A bridge identified as an integral component of the later nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of the rural environs of Ballina on account of the connections with the extension of the Mayo Branch of the Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR) line (opened 1873) by the Great Northern and Western Railway (GNWR) Company with the architectural value of the composition confirmed not only by the rock faced dressings 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: meanwhile, a discreet benchmark remains of additional interest for the connections with cartography and the preparation of maps by the Ordnance Survey (established 1824).

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 31303906

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