Bridge in Colgagh, County Monaghan

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What is recorded here

Single-arch stone railway bridge, built 1849, carrying embanked Dundalk to Enniskillen line over roadway to neighbouring corn mill. Round arch having rock-faced rusticated voussoirs and chamfered impost course. Cut-stone abutments having rock-faced rusticated quoins. Brick soffit to arch. Cut-stone walls, with chamfered string course to parapets. Splayed buttressing walls with cut-stone copings to embankments.

The simple form of this bridge, along with the articulation achieved through stone dressing, is typical of several railway bridges on this railway line and displays skilled stone masonry. It is a visual reminder of the Great Northern Railway which closed in the mid-twentieth century.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 41402906

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mill (water)52 yd

Explorer Tom Mill has caught my eye in Colgagh, County Monaghan. I bet a mill (water) with a name like that could keep me talking all afternoon; I'm already inventing a daft little scene for it, and I'll stop before it turns into history.

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Fane Lane ParkChildren's playground · 2.4 miComputer-made picture. It does not show this playground.

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