Mahon Bridge
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MahonBridge Droichead Mhachan
This Irish village is located on the main Carrick on Suir to Lemybrien / Dungarvan road. The nearest town is Kilmacthomas and it is in the Parish of Kilrossanty [1]
Mahon Bridge has a local shop, a garage and crash repair yard and a historic creamery which is no longer in use. The rural shop is attached to a house and requires doorbell use for entry outside peak trading hours.
Mahon Bridge is located at a picturesque bridge over the River Mahon which runs from the Mahon Falls in the Comeragh Mountains to the sea at Bunmahon on the coast of County Waterford. Mahon Bridge is used as an access point for navigating to the Mahon Falls, and is well known by walkers and hillclimbers for this reason.
There is currently a hydro electric power station under construction just upriver from Mahon Bridge, which intends to generate between 0.7 MW and 2.5 MW of electricity to add to the National Grid. [2] [3]
The village is laid out around a trianglular field with are roads to Kilrossanty, Fews, Furraleigh, Briska and Lyre (Home of the infamous Bachelors in Trouble produced by local historian Sean Murphy).
