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Owencloghy Bridge

Deer Park Farms, Mid and East Antrim, Northern Ireland

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Designation
Listed building, Grade B2
Grade
B2
Type
Bridge
Date of listing
5 October 2005
Date of construction
1820 - 1839
Address
Owencloghy Bridge, Deer Park Road, Deer Park Farms, Glenarm, Ballymena, Co Antrim
Townland
Deer Park Farms
Council
Mid and East Antrim
Country
Northern Ireland
Coordinates
54.90273, -6.01498
Date of survey
03 April 2001
HB reference
HB06/02/080

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1817 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Single arch road bridge of possible pre 1832 construction in random basalt rubble, carrying the Glenview Road over the Glenarm River. The bridge is located roughly 6 miles SSW of Glenarm.

The bridge has a single arch with semicircular head and dressed voussoirs. To the E side of this is a small secondary pedestrian archway. Metal tie rods have been inserted into the structure. There are low parapets with rendered coping.

Historical information

A bridge is shown on this site on the OS map of 1832 and all others thereafter. It is possible that much of the structure we see today is pre 1832, but with all structures such this, some rebuilding may have taken place.

References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS/6/1/34/1 OS map, Co Antrim sheet 34 (6in series) 1832
2 PRONI OS/6/1/34/2 OS map, Co Antrim sheet 34 (6in series) 1857

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
J. Setting

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

Single arch road bridge of possible pre 1832 construction in (largely) squared basalt rubble, carrying the Deer Park Road over the Glenarm River.

Nearby in the register

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

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