Ballyalbany Bridge

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Part 8 Planning Application - Ballyalbany Bridge - New active travel link across the Ulster Canal, alongside the protected masonry Ballyalbany Bridge structure in Monaghan Town.

 

A new active travel link will be constructed across the Blackwater River, alongside the protected masonry Ballyalbany Bridge structure (Reg. No. 41400943). This will require the construction of new bridge structure comprising a single span steel beam and steel decking superstructure, 14.0 m long, made integral with concrete abutments. The superstructure will feature three main steel girders stiffened transversely by braces or cross beams, with a 3 m wide non-participating anti-slip walkway surface on top. The substructure will comprise short wall-type abutments with wingwalls, founded on piled foundations. To accommodate the new bridge deck, a portion of the existing buttress wall located at the southern end of the existing structure, as well as a section of the pier cutwater, will be removed, and these sections will be brought down to a level just below the new bridge deck soffit.