Droichead na nDeor [The Bridge of Tears] — BALLYBOE MOUNTAIN — Photo: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage · Open the original picture · Website use allowed for educational or private purposes with source credit · Report the wrong picture · If this is your picture and you want it taken down, email me.

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Double-arch bridge, built c.1820, crossing Sruthán Mhín Easa Roda [Sruhanmeennasarudda]. Rubble sandstone walls with rendered copings to parapets. Round arches with rough voussoirs, gunnelled soffits and triangular stone cut-waters to both sides. Evidence of lime render to stonework. Set in remote rural area and serving busy mountain road. Stone to west of bridge with text: "Fad leis seo a thagadh/Cairde agus lucht Gaeil/An té a bhí ag imeacht/Chun na Coigríche/B'anseo an scaradh/Seo Droichead na nDeor" ("As far as here came the friends and relations of the one who was going to foreign lands. Here was the separation. This is the Bridge of Tears").

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Droichead na nDeor [The Bridge of Tears] — BALLYBOE MOUNTAIN

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