Survey Data
Reg No
30403605
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
Date
1750 - 1800
Coordinates
76506, 247153
Date Recorded
24/07/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch estate bridge, built c.1775, and incorporating stone-walled revetment carrying roadway over Owenmore River. Coursed rubble stonework with projecting dressed limestone piers carrying tooled and rusticated string course above arch. Round arch with tooled and pecked voussoirs with keystone and having gunnelled concrete soffit. Triangular-profile dressed limestone coping to parapets terminating in pyramidal blocks at eastern end, with additional painted dressed and tooled gate piers set into dressed limestone block piers. Corbels carry parapet to western revetment with pedestrian accessway under roadway, comprising roughly coursed and dressed limestone with camber arch having voussiors. Passageway flanked by curved buttresses to south elevation and single buttress to north, with single-leaf wrought-iron gate at centre of passage.
Appraisal
This splendid estate bridge carries the eastern estate entrance road to Ballynahinch Castle over Owenmore River. It has many fine architectural features such as the finely dressed piers and coping and the unusual passageway under the road.