Steel Beam Lift Takes Place At River Moy Bridge

The N26 Cloongullane Realignment Project has reached a major milestone with the beginning of a steel beam lift.

A steel beam lift began today, Friday 15 October, and will also take place on Tuesday 19 October for the new River Moy Bridge.

The beam lift will be carried out using a Liebherr LR 1600/2 Crawler Crane which will lift the steel beams into place, in braced pairs.


The beams were prefabricated at Thompsons Engineering facility in Carlow and were then transported to site in six sections with two beams braced together. Welding, grinding and painting works were completed on the N26 Cloongullane Site. The steel beams are 85.2m in length and 3.325m in height and when braced together prior to being lifted into place they will weigh approximately 250 tonnes.

The project is managed by Mayo County Council's National Roads Office (NRO) and funded by Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII). The designer is Roughan & O'Donovan-AECOM and the contractor is BAM Civil Ltd.

Members of the public are requested not to visit the site. There is no safe location from which to view the lift and there is no public access to the site.