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Bridge in Stonehall

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Bridge in Stonehall
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Bridge in Stonehall carries a narrow road over its hump with the confidence of a man saying, 'Plenty of room, keep coming.' Should two cars disagree, the railway underneath has the considerable advantage of having chosen its direction in 1873.

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Single-arch hump back road bridge over railway line, opened 1873; extant 1896. Part ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls with lichen-covered rock faced cut-limestone coping to parapets. Single segmental arch[?] with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning railway line with unkempt embankments to railway line.
A narrow bridge identified as an integral component of the later nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of County Mayo on account of the connections with the extension of the Mayo Branch of the Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR) line (opened 1873) 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.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 31304803

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