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Millenium Bridge

Millenium Bridge

Wellington Quay (Sth)/ Lower Ormond Quay (Nth) , Dublin 2

The Millennium Bridge is one of Dublin's newer river bridges and was opened on 20 December 1999 thus beating its deadline by a full 11 days! Solely a pedestrian bridge, its purpose was to open a new route between Temple Bar and the Mary Street/Jervis Street shopping district and to relieve congestion on the nearby Halfpenny Bridge
The Millennium Bridge is a pedestrian bridge spanning the River Liffey in Dublin, joining Eustace Street in Temple Bar to the north quays.
Installed in December 1999 to commemorate the new millennium (2000), the span was actually constructed 80 km from Dublin - in Carlow - as a portal frame structure made up of a slender steel truss and resting on reinforced concrete haunches.
The bridge was designed by Howley Harrington Architects with Price & Myers as Consulting Engineers. The concrete base and steel structure for the bridge were provided by two Carlow firms: Formwork 2000+ and Thompson Engineering respectively.
The Millennium Bridge is neighbour to the much older (and well known) pedestrian Ha'penny Bridge to the east, and Grattan Bridge to the west.