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Railway tunnel, built 1896; opened 1896; extant 1897. Closed, 1934. Reopened, 1936. Closed, 1937. Now disused. South: Tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone battered walls with overgrown coping to parapets. Single horseshoe-profile tunnel with red brick header bond voussoirs. Sited spanning uprooted railway line with unkempt embankments to railway line.
A tunnel illustrating the continued ""improvement"" of the Mayo Branch of the Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR) line (opened 1894) by the Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR) Company.

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