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Varley's Bridge

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Varley's Bridge
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Varley's Bridge in Pollacorragune straddles the railway in enormous, rough-faced limestone blocks. It has the build of a man who was asked to mind a seat and decided nobody was sitting down for the rest of the nineteenth century.

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Limestone railway bridge, built c.1880, over Athenry to Claremorris railway line. Walls of large blocks of rusticated limestone, with similar voussoirs to arch, sloping approach walls and parapet copings.
This very intact limestone railway bridge exemplifies the confidence of nineteenth-century engineers and the high quality of local building materials.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30402903

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Pictures: Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5; Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; ClintMalpaso, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; Enda O Flaherty, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; C Michael Hogan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Rick Crowley, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Maigheach-gheal, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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