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Single-arch railway bridge over river, built 1893-4; opened 1894; extant 1898. Closed, 1934. Reopened, 1936. Closed, 1937. Now disused. Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked rock faced sandstone walls with rock faced cut-limestone coping to parapets. Single round arch with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Bunnahowna River with unkempt banks to river.
A lofty bridge identified as an integral component of the late nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of the environs of Mallaranny on account of the connections with the extension of the Mayo Branch of the Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR) line (opened 1894) by the Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR) Company with the architectural value of the composition confirmed not only by the construction in a ruby-coloured sandstone offset by rock faced limestone dressings producing a mild polychromatic palette, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arch making a dramatic visual statement at a gorge-like crossing over the minor Bunnahowna River.

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