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Bridge in Cushinkeel

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Bridge in Cushinkeel
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Bridge in Cushinkeel is narrow and humped, a combination that turns two approaching motorists into rival bishops. ‘After you.’ ‘No, after you.’ Lovely manners, until one of them has to reverse.

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Single-arch hump back road bridge over railway line, opened 1866; extant 1897. Creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls with lichen-covered rock faced cut-limestone coping to parapets. Single segmental arch with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning railway line with unkempt embankments to railway line.
A narrow bridge identified as an integral component of the mid nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of County Mayo on account of the connections with the development of the Mayo Branch of the Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR) line (opened 1866) by the Great Northern and Western Railway (GNWR) 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 railway line.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 31308805

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; N Chadwick, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; Laurel Lodged, Wikimedia Commons · CC0; Maker named on the Wikimedia Commons picture page · Public domain; Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Graham Horn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC0; Eric Jones, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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