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Single-arch railway bridge over road, opened 1895; extant 1915. Closed, 1934. Reopened, 1936. Closed, 1937. Now disused. Tuck pointed snecked rock faced sandstone walls with rock faced cut-limestone coping to parapets. Single segmental arch with drag edged rock faced sandstone ashlar voussoirs centred on drag edged rock faced cut-sandstone keystones. Sited spanning road with unkempt embankments to road.
A bridge identified as an integral component of the late nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of Mallaranny on account of the connections with the extension of the Mayo Branch of the Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR) line (opened 1895) by the Achill Extension Railway (AER) Company with the architectural value of the composition confirmed not only by the rock faced dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arch making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan setting in the shadow of Claggan Mountain.

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