Overview
bridge — BALLYNARAHA is recorded as bridge in Mayo. Single-arch hump back road bridge over railway line, opened 1873 Part ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls with rock faced cut-limestone coping to parapets.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Single-arch hump back road bridge over railway line, opened 1873
People and work
The saved account records: Part ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls with rock faced cut-limestone coping to parapets.
How it changed
The saved account records: Single segmental arch[?] with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar voussoirs.
What survives
The saved account records: Sited spanning railway line with unkempt embankments to railway line.
Why it mattered
bridge — BALLYNARAHA 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 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… 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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