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Roosky Bridge

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Roosky Bridge
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Roosky Bridge in Knockmacrory used to swing aside for boats; now it lifts a section of road for them. Buy a car and you sit in traffic. Buy a boat and Leitrim holds the door.

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Five-arch road bridge, built in 1845 spanning the River Shannon at Roosky. Random coursed cut limestone piers with up and downstream U-cutwaters and ashlar voussoirs to segmental arch-rings and ashlar parapets. Automatic lift bridge, c.1970 at east end, replaced swing bridge. Moorings to south of bridge on each riverbank. Date plaque to parapet of bridge attributes its construction to the Commissioners for the improvement of the navigation on the River Shannon.
Roosky Bridge is a major crossing point on the River Shannon. The bridge and in particular the swing bridge, replaced now by an automatic lift bridge, are a reminder of nineteenth-century engineering feats. The bridge has and continues to play an important role in the economic and social life of Roosky. There are mooring points downriver from the bridge.

The story behind this place

The bridge and in particular the swing bridge, replaced now by an automatic lift bridge, are a reminder of nineteenth-century engineering feats.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30937003

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