Survey Data
Reg No
41401253
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
Date
1855 - 1865
Coordinates
254349, 328089
Date Recorded
05/05/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Single-span skew railway bridge, built c.1860, carrying Portadown and Cavan Branch of Ulster Railway over road. Superstructure of span removed. Rock-faced rusticated stone abutments with rusticated margined quoins and tapered buttresses. Roughly-coursed squared stone parapet walls flanking carriageway, having dressed limestone copings and rendered brick plat-bands to base of parapets.
Appraisal
Although its deck has been removed, this former railway bridge remains an attractive focal point on the landscape, enlivened by dressed stone coping to parapet walls, render string course, tapered buttresses and rusticated stone. The Portadown and Cavan Branch of the Ulster Railway, later the Great Northern Railway, provided a transport link in this area which was indicative of both the commercial productivity and increased communication needs and inter-dependency throughout the country at the time. An integral component part of this network, this bridge is an important reminder of the industrial heritage of the area.