Overview
bridge — CANBRACK, DERRYNANED, DEVLEASH is recorded as bridge in Mayo. Three-arch road bridge over river, extant 1895. Coursed cut-limestone walls centred on tooled limestone ashlar triangular cutwaters to piers on shuttered concrete battered bases with lichen-covered rock faced cut-limestone coping to parapets.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Three-arch road bridge over river, extant 1895.
People and work
The saved account records: Coursed cut-limestone walls centred on tooled limestone ashlar triangular cutwaters to piers on shuttered concrete battered bases with lichen-covered rock faced cut-limestone coping to parapets.
How it changed
The saved account records: Series of three segmental arches with tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs.
What survives
The saved account records: Sited spanning Glore River with unkempt banks to river.
Why it mattered
bridge — CANBRACK, DERRYNANED, DEVLEASH matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A bridge representing an integral component of the later nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of County Mayo with the architectural value of the composition confirmed not only by the sheer limestone dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arches making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the Glore River. 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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