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What is recorded here
Bridge in Drumneen [clan. by.] stands over a railway nicknamed the ‘Burma Road’, which is a fierce distance to travel in your head before discovering you’re still near Claremorris. Keep the passport handy; the nettles may have declared independence.
Single-arch road bridge over railway line, extant 1894; opened 1895. Tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls between tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone battered abutment walls with lichen-covered rock faced cut-limestone coping to parapets. Single segmental arch with red brick header bond voussoirs. Sited spanning overgrown 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 Claremorris on account of the connections with the development of the Waterford, Limerick and Western Railway (WLWR) line by the Waterford, Limerick and Western Railway (WLWR) Company, the so-called "Burma Road" opened (1895) in response to Arthur James Balfour's Light Railways (Ireland) Act, 1889, 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-neglected railway line.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 31310108
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