Bridge in Rathscanlan, County Mayo

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Single-span railway bridge over road, opened 1895; extant 1895. Closed, 1975. Now disused. Tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls between benchmark-inscribed tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone battered abutment walls with rock faced cut-limestone stringcourses supporting creeper- or ivy-covered piers…

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A bridge identified as an integral component of the late nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of the outskirts of Swinford 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: meanwhile, a discreet benchmark remains of additional interest for the connections with cartography and the preparation of maps by the Ordnance Survey (established 1824).

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 31306203

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Grave YardGraveyard · 394 ydComputer-made picture. It does not show this monument.

Explorer Tom Graveyard in Rathscanlan has caught my eye in Rathscanlan, County Mayo. I bet a graveyard with a name like that could keep me talking all afternoon; I'm already inventing a daft little scene for it, and I'll stop before it turns into history.

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Explorer Tom Enclosure in Rathscanlan has caught my eye in Rathscanlan, County Mayo. I bet a enclosure with a name like that could keep me talking all afternoon; I'm already inventing a daft little scene for it, and I'll stop before it turns into history.

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