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Ardmore Bridge

Ardmore, Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland

The record

Designation
Record only (not listed)
Grade
Record Only
Type
Bridge
Date of construction
1840 - 1859
Address
Ardmore Bridge, Ballyavelin Road, Limavady, Co Londonderry, BT49
Townland
Ardmore
Council
Causeway Coast and Glens
Country
Northern Ireland
Coordinates
55.02836, -6.89696
Date of survey
17 February 1998
HB reference
HB02/08/013

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1838 "Ireland, north sheet." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Two arch random rubble stone built each arch approximately 3.6 metre span, almost semi-circular with pointed breakwaters upstream. Width between parapets six metres with parapets one metre high and 13½ metres long ending in metre long pier at each end. Neat stone coping to parapet. On upstream side a 225mm diameter water main crosses supported on steel R.S.J. spanning between breakwaters which have been defaced with mass concrete and concrete block piers. The arch voissoirs are deep and of whinstone

Historical information

Road and crossing first appear on 1848 map.

Reference:
OSS 1848
IHR No:

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A good double arch rubble stone bridge with pointed breakwaters upstream and downstream and with sturdy parapet walls and copings.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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