Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
'New Bridge'
Turnarober, Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Bridge
- Date of listing
- 23 October 1980
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- 'New Bridge', Drones Road, Armoy, Ballymoney, County Antrim
- Townland
- Turnarober
- Council
- Causeway Coast and Glens
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 55.13102, -6.32588
- Date of survey
- 04 October 2004
- HB reference
- HB05/05/007
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1827 "Antrim, Raghery." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Single-arch, rubble-built road bridge carrying Drones Road over the River Bush, built some time between 1832 and 1857. The bridge located on east side of the village of Armoy.
The bridge is constructed in squared rubble and has a segmental arch has dressed sandstone voussoirs and keystone, a sandstone plat band at carriageway level, and sandstone coping to the parapets. The parapets terminate in square piers which project to each face of the bridge.
Historical information
This bridge is not shown on the OS map of 1832, but does appear on that of 1857, where it is marked ‘New Br[idge]’. It was constructed to carry a new stretch of Drones Road, allowing those travelling between Ballycastle and Ballymena to ‘by-pass’ Armoy. It is possible that this road, (and by default the bridge), was built around 1835-40, for Lewis’s ‘Topographical Dictionary’ of 1837 mentions the building of ‘new roads’ in the vicinity of Armoy
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS/6/1/13/1 OS map, Co Antrim, sheet 13 (1832)
2 Lewis, Samuel, ‘Topographical history of Ireland’ (London, 1837)
3 PRONI OS/6/1/13/2 OS map, Co Antrim, sheet 13 (1857)
4 PRONI OS/6/1/13/3 OS map, Co Antrim, sheet 13 (1906)
Other
references
1 EHS HB05/05/007 First Survey report (26 September 1972)
2 EHS HB05/05/007 Photograph (October 1972)
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
B. Proportion
J. Setting
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Evaluation
Single-arch, rubble-built road bridge carrying Drones Road over the River Bush, built some time between 1832 and 1857. An untouched example of a mid 19th-century road bridge which adds much to its surroundings.
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