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4 unusual facts about Mellows Bridge


Mellows Bridge

The collapse was described by George Semple as being an unlucky accident when a raft of timber was swiftly carried downstream in a flood where it got lodged across the middle arch.

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The bridge was renamed for the legendary Queen Maeve at a meeting of the Municipal Council on 2 January 1922.

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Construction was funded by landowner William Ellis, and Dublin Corporation.

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However, it was renamed again in 1942 to its current name, after Lieutenant General Liam Mellows Irish Republican army who was executed during the Irish Civil War.



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