Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Burntollet Bridge
Brackfield, Council not recorded, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- D1 Record Only
- Type
- Bridge
- Date of construction
- 1780 - 1799
- Address
- Burntollet Bridge, Glenshane Road (A6), Co. Londonderry, BT47 3SN
- Townland
- Brackfield
- Council
- Council not recorded
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.94089, -7.21590
- Date of survey
- 29 April 2018
- HB reference
- HB01/02/043
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
A carefully designed, late eighteenth century, whinstone hump backed bridge of good proportion which spans the Burntollet river with a single semi-circular arch. Though associated with a 1969 incident linked to the start of the ‘Troubles’, that event took place mainly in front of the bridge on ground destroyed by subsequent road works. The structure will be removed in the near future as part of further road works to dual the road connecting Northern Ireland’s two largest cities.
Nearby in the register
- THE OAKSHOUSEunder 1 mi
- Cumber Primary SchoolNo type recordedunder 1 mi
- LOWER CUMBER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHCHURCHunder 1 mi
- 274 Glenshane RoadHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.