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Bridge in Carrowreagh [tira. by.]

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Bridge in Carrowreagh [tira. by.]
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Bridge in Carrowreagh [tira. by.] still makes the road climb over a railway that’s been uprooted. The trains have left, the tracks have left, and your bicycle is still being asked to show them a bit of respect.

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Single-arch hump back road bridge over railway line, opened 1893; extant 1896. Tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls between tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone battered piers with chamfered stringcourses supporting parapets having chamfered coping. Single segmental arch with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning uprooted railway line with unkempt embankments to railway line.
A bridge identified as an integral component of the late nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of the rural environs of Killala on account of the connections with the extension of the Mayo Branch of the Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR) line (opened 1893) by the Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR) Company with the architectural value of the composition confirmed not only by the rock faced surface finish demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arch making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the now-uprooted railway line.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 31302213

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; JohnArmagh, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; Edward S. Siebert, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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