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Deeps Bridge
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Deeps Bridge and picnic site Low bridge across the River Slaney. There is a short lifting section at the middle of the bridge - the far left of the photo - but it didn't appear to have been lifted for some time as the join had tar seal across it. By the picnic table is the photographer's bicycle, hired in Wexford.
Deeps Bridge and picnic site Low bridge across the River Slaney. There is a short lifting section at the middle of the bridge - the far left of the photo - but it didn't appear to have been lifted for some time as the join had tar seal across it. By the picnic table is the photographer's bicycle, hired in Wexford. · Photo: David Hawgood · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original Geograph photograph
Lifting mechanism, Deeps Bridge. As the gap between the static section and lifting section has tarmac across it, the bridge cannot have been lifted recently. On the Internet there is an application http://www.epa.ie/licences/lic_eDMS/090151b28026d97f.pdf , concerning a biogas plant at the pig farm at Deeps, which includes installing hot water pipes across the bridge. So it seems that the lifting has been abandoned. See 1269074 for photo from upstream of this section of bridge.
Lifting mechanism, Deeps Bridge. As the gap between the static section and lifting section has tarmac across it, the bridge cannot have been lifted recently. On the Internet there is an application http://www.epa.ie/licences/lic_eDMS/090151b28026d97f.pdf , concerning a biogas plant at the pig farm at Deeps, which includes installing hot water pipes across the bridge. So it seems that the lifting has been abandoned. See 1269074 for photo from upstream of this section of bridge. · Photo: David Hawgood · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original Geograph photograph

What is recorded here

Eleven-span bascule road bridge over river, designed 1913; opened 1915. Reinforced concrete deck on reinforced concrete cross braced piers with reinforced concrete lattice parapets having lichen-spotted reinforced concrete coping. Sited spanning River Slaney with reed-covered banks to…

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Eleven-span bascule road bridge over river, designed 1913; opened 1915. Reinforced concrete deck on reinforced concrete cross braced piers with reinforced concrete lattice parapets having lichen-spotted reinforced concrete coping. Sited spanning River Slaney with reed-covered banks to river.
A bridge erected by the British Reinforced Concrete Engineering Company (fl. 1908-90) of Manchester to a design by Alfred Dover Delap (1871-1943) of Dublin (DIA) representing an important component of the early twentieth-century civil engineering heritage of County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one succeeding a timber trestle bridge erected (1842-4) by James Barry Farrell (1810-93), confirmed not only by the innovative construction in "BRC Fabric", but also by the streamlined lattice work making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the River Slaney (cf. 15702907).

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1908-90) of Manchester to a design by Alfred Dover Delap (1871-1943) of Dublin (DIA) representing an important component of the early twentieth-century civil engineering heritage of County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one succeeding a timber trestle bridge erected.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15703218

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  • Maker not stated on source page, www.tripadvisor.ru
  • Maker not stated on source page, tr.pinterest.com
  • Killurin Community Alert & Development; individual photographer not stated, www.killurincad.com
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