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Buingea Bridge, Cork

When the ESB flooded land in Cork, west of Cork City, as part of the Lee Hydro electric power scheme, this included closing the Cork to Macroom railway. CIE could have insisted on the rerouting of the railway but it was in the business of shutting down railways and took this as an opportunity to get rid of another line.

A road bridge over the former trackbed survives and periodically appears above water level in the reservoir. The Irish Independent reports that the ESB are to carry out a study of the structural integrity of the bridge arising out of fears that it may collapse.