What is recorded here
Bridge in Murneen North carried the railway known as the 'Burma Road' over a Mayo lane. That's a fierce name to give directions with: 'Under the Burma Road, then left.' 'Would Castlebar not be handier?'
Single-span railway bridge over lane, extant 1894; opened 1895. Closed, 1975. Now disused. 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 centred on cast-iron span. Sited spanning lane with unkempt grass embankments to lane.
A dilapidated bridge identified as an integral component of the late nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of County Mayo 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.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 31309106
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