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Scarrownageeragh Bridge

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Scarrownageeragh Bridge
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Scarrownageeragh Bridge gives the Gweestion River seven arches to choose from, while you have to climb over its hump. Whoever negotiated that arrangement was definitely a river.

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Seven-arch hump back road bridge over river, extant 1838. Repointed walls centred on triangular cutwaters to piers to upriver (south-east) elevation having pyramidal capping with lichen-covered coping to parapets. Series of seven round arches with repointed cut-limestone voussoirs. Sited spanning Gweestion River with 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 traditional construction in unrefined local fieldstone offset by limestone dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arches making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the Gweestion River: meanwhile, a much weathered 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 31307102

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Pamela Norrington, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; JohnArmagh, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; Pamela Norrington, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Kay Atherton, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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