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Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Bridge

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The side spans over dry land on both sides of the river Barrow were built using a scaffold and a wing form traveller. The main spans were built using the balanced cantilever method. At its maximum length from the central pier, the west span cantilevered 140m over the river.
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whose ancestors came from nearby Dunganstown. It is also popularly referred to as the Pink Rock Bridge or as the New Ross Bypass Bridge, and as the Barrow Crossing in technical materials related to its construction.
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The 230 metres (750 ft) main spans of the bridge are the longest concrete-only extradosed box-girder bridge spans in the world. The spans are equal in length to the main span of the N25
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Bypass, and was officially opened on 29 January 2020 by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and opened to traffic on 30 January 2020, becoming Ireland's longest bridge. The bridge received in 2021 an
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The bridge is controversially officially named after
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21st-century architecture in the Republic of Ireland
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Coordinates
52°21′24″N 6°59′32″W / 52.3567°N 6.9923°W / 52.3567; -6.9923
N25 road
River Barrow
Glenmore
BAM Civil
Extradosed bridge
Concrete
Clearance above
ARUP
Carlos Fernandez Casado SL
extradosed bridge
River Barrow
Ireland
N25
New Ross
Outstanding Structure Award
International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
John F. Kennedy

Suir Bridge
Waterford
Foyle Bridge
Northern Ireland

Roads in Ireland
Atlantic Corridor
List of Ireland-related topics

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