Survey Data
Reg No
41301005
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
Date
1850 - 1860
Coordinates
271865, 342181
Date Recorded
30/11/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch limestone bridge, built c.1855, carrying disused Portadown to Cavan railway line over Mountain Water River. Round arch with rock-faced voussoirs and red brick soffit, curving sloping limestone wing walls and sloping buttresses to both elevations. Roughly hewn limestone blocks built to courses. Chamfered cut-stone imposts, and with chamfered cut-stone string course above arch and to parapet copings.
Appraisal
This well constructed bridge demonstrates good quality masonry typical of railway construction in the latter half of the nineteenth century. It is part of a fine group of similar bridges and is enhanced by its skew form and by its various masonry details.