Bridge in Skiddernagh

Bridge

What is recorded here

Single-arch road bridge over railway line, opened 1862; extant 1895. Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked limestone walls between tuck pointed snecked limestone battered abutment walls with lichen-covered rock faced cut-limestone coping to parapets. Single segmental arch with drag edged rock faced…

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A bridge identified as an integral component of the mid nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of County Mayo on account of the connections with the development of the Mayo Branch of the Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR) line (opened 1862) by the Great Northern and Western Railway (GNWR) 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 at a crossing over the railway line: meanwhile, a 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 31307910

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