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Bridge in Ballynastuckaun

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Bridge in Ballynastuckaun
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Bridge in Ballynastuckaun, near Doonbeg, has been holding the road clear for a railway that closed in 1972. There’s keeping a seat for somebody, and then there’s letting fifty years pass before admitting they might have got a lift.

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Single arch road bridge, built c.1860, over now disused railway line. Symmetrical plan about north-south axis. Segmental arch with cut limestone voussoirs to arch ring. Squared and snecked limestone to spandrel panels. Squared and snecked rubble limestone parapet with squared and snecked rubble limestone flanking walls ending in square piers with chamfered pier caps to east and west. Set in rural location with post and wire fences to adjoining fields.
This handsome stone bridge is a fine example of mid-nineteenth-century railway engineering and part of the industrial heritage of the area. Built by the Great Southern and Western Railway Company to carry the Athenry to Claremorris line which closed in 1972, it is constructed of well detailed stone, is relatively unaltered and has an attractive symmetry.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30405801

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; liam murphy, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Julie Anne Workman, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; Christian Pirkl, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 at; ClintMalpaso, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; DeeEmm, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; C Michael Hogan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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