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Mahon Bridge (Irish: Droichead na Machan), also spelled Mahonbridge, is a village in the parish of Kilrossanty in mid County Waterford, Ireland, located on the main Carrick on Suir to Dungarvan road. The nearest town is Kilmacthomas.
The village 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 named for the picturesque bridge which crosses the River Mahon at this point, the river running from the Mahon Falls in the Comeragh Mountains to the sea at Bunmahon. Mahon Bridge is is well known to walkers and hill climbers who use the village as a jumping-off point for visits to the Falls.
A hydroelectric power station is under construction just upriver from Mahon Bridge. It is planned that the station will generate between 0.7 and 2.5 MW of electricity to add to the national grid.
Stage 2 of the 1998 Tour de France passed through Mahon Bridge.
The village is laid out around a triangular field, from which roads lead to Kilrossanty, Fews, Furraleigh, Briska and Lyre (home of the infamous Bachelors in Trouble produced by local historian Sean Murphy).
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Categories:- Untranslated Irish place names
- Towns and villages in County Waterford
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