Survey Data
Reg No
20858002
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1740 - 1760
Coordinates
165695, 74461
Date Recorded
25/02/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch hump-backed stone road bridge, built c.1750, carrying road over Glennamought River. Coursed rubble stone construction with cut-stone voussoirs to arch. Random rubble parapet with rendered segmental coping. Tarmacdam carriageway.
Appraisal
Blackstone Bridge is typical of the many modest rural road bridges constructed in the country as part of road transport developments in the eighteenth-century. Its simple though robust construction attests to engineering skill of the time. It has remained largely unchanged.