Overview
bridge — DRUMATE, FEAGH is recorded as bridge in Monaghan. Single-span railway bridge, dated 1953, carrying accommodation track over former Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway. Reinforced concrete carriageway, replacing earlier masonry arch, inscribed date and lettering to side of track.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Single-span railway bridge, dated 1953, carrying accommodation track over former Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway.
People and work
The saved account records: Reinforced concrete carriageway, replacing earlier masonry arch, inscribed date and lettering to side of track.
How it changed
The saved account records: Face of abutments reinforced with concrete to each side.
What survives
The saved account records: Random rubble walls to abutments, buttresses and parapets, concrete copings to parapets and dressed chamfered plat-band to base of parapets, Steel railings to parapets.
Why it mattered
bridge — DRUMATE, FEAGH matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: The Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway opened in 1855, and was taken over by the Great Northern Railway in 1953, when the carriageway of this bridge was replaced with reinforced concrete. This bridge represents the ongoing technological developments in civil engineering throughout the twentieth century. The utilitarian aspect of the bridge is achieved by minimal superfluous ornamentation and is indicative of the influence of modernism. 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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