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Falsework required. No. A simple suspension bridge (also rope bridge, swing bridge (in New Zealand), suspended bridge, hanging bridge and catenary bridge) is a primitive type of bridge in which the deck of the bridge lies on two parallel load-bearing cables that are anchored at either end. They have no towers or piers.
Living root bridges are a kind of tree shaping in which rivers are spanned by architecture formed out of the roots of ficus plants. Due to their being made from living, growing, trees, they "show a very wide variety of structural typologies, with various aspects of particular bridges resembling characteristics of suspension bridges, cable-stayed bridges, arches, trusses, and simply-supported ...
Location. The Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge (locally pronounced carrick-a-reed) is a rope bridge near Ballintoy in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The bridge links the mainland to the tiny island of Carrickarede (from Irish Carraig a' Ráid, meaning 'rock of the casting'). [ 1 ] It spans 20 metres (66 ft) and is 30 metres (98 ft) above the rocks ...
The Gearagh. The Gearagh (Irish: An Gaorthadh) [2] is a submerged glacial woodland and nature reserve two kilometres southwest of Macroom, County Cork, in Kilmichael parish, Ireland. It is located at the point where the River Lee descends from the mountains and widens at an alluvial plain, and stretches for roughly five kilometres, bounded by ...
The Glen River flows through the forest, crossed by three stone bridges. Rostrevor Forest is near the village of Rostrevor, County Down, between the Mourne Mountains and Carlingford Lough, in the Mourne Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The first trees, primarily sitka spruce, douglas fir and pine, were planted in 1931.
Total length. 620 metres (2,030 ft) Height. 50 metres (160 ft) History. Opened. 1 July 2001 (2001-07-01) Location. The Tahune AirWalk is a steel canopy walkway located in the Tahune Forest area 29 km from Geeveston and sits over the banks of the Huon River in the Huon Valley of southern Tasmania, Australia.
D. Daly's Bridge. Categories: Suspension bridges by country. Bridges in the Republic of Ireland. Towers in the Republic of Ireland.
1860s. Spans the River Finn between the Republic and Northern Ireland. The Joe Dolan Memorial Bridge. County Westmeath. Mullingar, County Westmeath. 2010. 540m long bridge that crosses the floodplain of the River Brosna and Lacy’s Canal in Mullingar. Killaloe Bridge. County Clare and County Tipperary.