placenamesRosscor
Ros Corr
Rosscor’s river crossing connects twentieth-century bridge engineering with the continuing task of monitoring Lower Lough Erne.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Ros Corr · Irish · main form · validated name
- Rosscor · English · main form
Place & story
The viaduct opened in 1927
Rosscor Viaduct opened in 1927 as a nine-span reinforced-concrete bridge using the Kahn system. The Irish Architectural Archive records it among the works of Fermanagh county surveyor James Parsons Burkitt, with R. Westropp George as resident engineer and S. R. Boyd as contractor. The structure belongs to the county’s twentieth-century road improvements. [2]
A temporary span that lasted decades
In a written Assembly answer published on 8 July 2016, infrastructure minister Chris Hazzard confirmed that a Bailey bridge had served the viaduct’s missing northernmost span since 1972. He described investigations into repairing defective concrete and restoring the crossing. This dated account records both the long survival of the temporary solution and the importance attached to the local river link. [3]
Watching the water level
Rosscor is also one of the three stations used by the Department for Infrastructure to record Lough Erne’s daily water levels. Its gauge represents Lower Lough Erne, downstream of Enniskillen. Water-level management across the Erne system operates with the Electricity Supply Board under an agreement made in 1950 for hydroelectric development. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Fermanagh
- Barony
- Magheraboy
- Civil parish
- Inishmacsaint
- Within
- Rosscor
- Coordinates
- 54.46140, -8.04627 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413435 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Rosscor. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Rosscor Viaduct, opened 1927, work entry 2507 · Irish Architectural Archive, Dictionary of Irish Architects
- Northern Ireland Assembly Official Report, Volume 116, 8 July 2016, WA449, AQW2020/16–21 · Northern Ireland Assembly; answer by Chris Hazzard
- Lough Erne levels: monitoring stations and the 1950 agreement · Department for Infrastructure
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-01-11. How this page was prepared.