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Obelisk Bridge in Townleyhall, Tullyallen, arrived up the Boyne in girders weighing twenty-eight tons apiece. You’d answer the first knock for that delivery. Let the boatman leave one with a neighbour and you’d never be on speaking terms again.
Single-span iron girder road bridge over River Boyne, built 1868, on rock-faced limestone piers. Limestone ashlar piers to north and south ends with recessed panels, cut stone cappings. Suspended repair gantry to underside.
This iron girder bridge is a fine example of nineteenth century engineering. It was designed by engineering company A. Tate and the county surveyors for Meath and Louth, Samuel Searanke and John Neville. The prefabricated girders, each weighing a staggering twenty-eight tons, were transported up river from the works of Thomas Grendon & Co. in Drogheda to the site. Continuing in use today, it forms an important feature within the architectural heritage of County Louth.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 13902410
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