Bridge in Kiltamagh, County Mayo

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Single-arch road bridge over railway line, opened 1895; extant 1895. Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls between tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone battered abutment walls with rock faced cut-limestone stringcourses supporting parapets having lichen-covered rock faced cut-limestone coping. Single segmental arch with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar 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 Kiltimagh 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 31210013

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