Survey Data
Reg No
41400925
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Scientific, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1835 - 1840
Coordinates
268857, 335672
Date Recorded
23/04/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch humpback canal footbridge, built c.1838, sited at 16th lock of Ulster Canal. Elliptical arch with tooled sandstone voussoirs. Coursed dressed sandstone to parapet and spandrel walls, squared ashlar to interior of parapet walls, and squared sandstone copings. Tooled platband to base of parapets, square-plan piers to each elevation to south of bridge. Squared sandstone to soffits. Recent concrete to carriageway. Towpath with concrete coping running to north abutment.
Appraisal
Located adjacent to a lock and lock-keeper's cottage, this bridge is a component part of an important historical feature. The construction of the Ulster Canal in the 1830s represents the continued growth of the Irish canal network in the early nineteenth century, prior to the massive intensification of railway construction. It remains in use as a road bridge and although its appearance has been somewhat altered, visible features such as tooled platband and voussoirs, dressed stone to the spandrel and parapet walls, greatly enliven the appearance of this structure.