bridge — CALTRAGH, CARROWMARLEY

The saved account records: Three-arch road bridge over railway line, begun 1891

The saved account records: Tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls centred on ivy-covered piers with rock faced cut-limestone stringcourses supporting parapets having lichen-covered rock faced cut-limestone coping.

The saved account records: Series of three round arches with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar voussoirs centred on drag edged rock faced cut-limestone keystones.

The saved account records: Sited spanning uprooted railway line with unkempt embankments to railway line.

bridge — CALTRAGH, CARROWMARLEY matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A viaduct-like bridge identified as an important component of the late nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of the rural environs of Claremorris on account of the connections with the development of the Claremorris and Ballinrobe Branch of the Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR) line (opened 1892) by the Ballinrobe and Claremorris Light Railway Company (formed 1884; absorbed 1924) with the architectural value of the composition confirmed not only by the rock faced surface finish demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the lofty "sweep" of the arches making a dramatic visual statement at a… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.