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Money Bridge

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Money Bridge
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Money Bridge carries you up a hump and down again over five arches, giving you a brief rise in fortune followed by the usual disappointment. Even the bridge named Money won't let you stay on top.

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Five-arch hump back bridge over river, extant 1838. Coursed rough cut limestone walls centred on tooled limestone ashlar triangular cutwaters having rendered pyramidal capping with hammered limestone rounded coping to parapets. Series of five round arches with tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Moyour River with unkempt grass banks to river.
A bridge representing an integral component of the civil engineering heritage of County Mayo with the architectural value of the composition suggested not only by the construction in rough cut limestone with "sparrow pecked" dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arches making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the Moyour River: 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 31307608

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Pictures: Robert Ashby, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; The original uploader was Cearbhalld at English Wikipedia ., Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Maker named on the Wikimedia Commons picture page · Public domain; Laurel Lodged, Wikimedia Commons · CC0; A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC0; Eric Jones, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Graham Horn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Mick Garratt, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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