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Foot bridge in Roonah

Foot bridge
Foot bridge in Roonah
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County Mayo, Bunlahinch Bridge.
County Mayo, Bunlahinch Bridge. · Photo: Egbert Polski · CC BY-SA 4.0

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The Foot bridge in Roonah takes thirty-seven spans and an L-shaped turn to get across the Bunleemshough River. This is a crossing built in the spirit of an Irish goodbye: you're definitely leaving, but there's another thirty-six people and a corner to get through.

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Thirty-seven-span "clapper bridge" or footbridge over river, extant 1878, on a cranked L-shaped plan. Sited spanning Bunleemshough River.
A lengthy "clapper bridge" or footbridge erected by John Alexander, Secretary of the Society for the Protection of Rights of Conscience (appointed 1863), not only widely accepted as an important component of the nineteenth-century built heritage of County Mayo, but also surviving as an interesting relic of the so-called "Colony" or "Colony of Jumpers" following the demolition (1927) of the nearby proselytising Bunlahinch Church (Bunlahinch) (1852-3).

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A lengthy "clapper bridge" or footbridge erected by John Alexander, Secretary of the Society for the Protection of Rights of Conscience (appointed 1863), not only widely accepted as an important component of the nineteenth-century built heritage of County Mayo, but also surviving as an.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 31309503

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