Cross Border Bridge
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The design of the first bridge across the border between the Republic and the North was revealed yesterday.
The 280-metre-long cable-stayed bridge will link Narrow Water near Warrenpoint in Co Down with Cornamucklagh in Omeath, Co Louth, and has been designed so it is safe for cyclists and pedestrians.
It is nearly 29 years since Narrow Water became synonymous with the single worst loss of life of British soldiers in the Troubles when two IRA bombs killed 18 soldiers. One civilian was also killed.
The bridge has a tower at each end. The higher 100-metre-tall one is on the southern side, which will have the Cooley and Mourne mountains as a backdrop; while the lower tower at 30 metres will be on the northern end and will compliment the Drumlin topography there.
Tony Dempsey, from consultant engineers Roughan O’Donovan, told councillors at meetings in Dundalk and Newry the criteria for selecting the bridge design included the impact on the environment and ecology as well as on the landscape and heritage.
He said it was designed as a ‘tourist bridge’ and cyclists, pedestrians, cars and coaches can use it, but heavy-goods vehicles will be discouraged.
A section of the bridge closest to Narrow Water will lift to let boats, including tall ships and other water traffic, pass by. It will span the Clanrye river as it prepares to flow into Carlingford Lough. Images of the bridge and full details of what is proposed will be on display in Warrenpoint and Omeath this week for feedback from the public.:D:D:cool:
Same engineers who built the boyne bridge!! http://www.roughanodonovan.com
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@Paul Clerkin wrote:
It’s not the first bridge across the border – one at Aughnacloy, another at Strabane
That’s an interesting one. Is it possible that this is the first bridge to be built across the border? I’m not familiar with the bridges at Aughnacloy or Strabane, but do they perhaps predate the border?
(I have travelled quite a bit between Dublin and Newry, and (as far as I remember) there was a little stream which used to form the border on the old road, between Jonesborough (ROI) and the BP station (NI). Perhaps this stream does not mark the border on the recently completed cross-border dual-carriageway section but, if it still does, surely that would be a cross-border bridge, however small?)
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its a cala x 3
when im I going to get the 2 + 1 treatment : P
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@Seamus O’G wrote:
That’s an interesting one. Is it possible that this is the first bridge to be built across the border? I’m not familiar with the bridges at Aughnacloy or Strabane, but do they perhaps predate the border?
(I have travelled quite a bit between Dublin and Newry, and (as far as I remember) there was a little stream which used to form the border on the old road, between Jonesborough (ROI) and the BP station (NI). Perhaps this stream does not mark the border on the recently completed cross-border dual-carriageway section but, if it still does, surely that would be a cross-border bridge, however small?)
Strabane and Authnacloy are proper bridges. The one at Aughnacloy was blown up when I was a kid, and a military bailey bridge used for over a decade. A new bridge was built in the late 80s early 90s. So that definitely post-dates the border.
It’s just typical shoddy Dublin-o-centric journalism 😉
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@johnny21 wrote:
He said it was designed as a ‘tourist bridge’ and cyclists, pedestrians, cars and coaches can use it, but heavy-goods vehicles will be discouraged.
discouraged? What does that mean? A sign saying “We’d prefer you to use the M1 but go ahead if you must”, a bunch of locals wagging their fingers as the HGV approaches? Load tut-tutting sounds as you go over rumble strips? Surely they should be banned if the desired outcome is no HGVs?
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@Paul Clerkin wrote:
Strabane and Authnacloy are proper bridges. The one at Aughnacloy was blown up when I was a kid, and a military bailey bridge used for over a decade. A new bridge was built in the late 80s early 90s. So that definitely post-dates the border.
It’s just typical shoddy Dublin-o-centric journalism 😉
Thanks for that, Paul.
It’d be kind of interesting to know who actually provided the bailey bridge. i.e. (assuming the border ran through the middle of the bridge) Did we have the presence of British military infrastructure in the Republic, or Irish military infrastructure in the North, at such a late stage of the twentieth century?:D
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Info above, on the bridge was taken from Irish indo(i think)…….sorry about mistakes;);)
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