McCartney's Bridge

Aughaboy, Mid and East Antrim, Northern Ireland

The record

Designation: Listed building, Grade B2
Grade: B2
Type: Bridge
Date of listing: 23 October 1979
Date of construction: 1920 - 1939
Address: McCartney's Bridge, Drumcrow Road, Aughaboy, Glenarm, Ballymena, Co Antrim
Townland: Aughaboy
Council: Mid and East Antrim
Country: Northern Ireland
Coordinates: 54.90392, -5.95608
Date of survey: 03 April 2001
HB reference: HB06/02/083

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Exterior description and setting

Single arch road bridge of c.1920-25 in squared basalt rubble, carrying the Drumcrow Road over the Linford Water. The bridge is located at a sharp bend in the road, roughly 5.5 miles S of Glenarm.

The bridge has a tall single arch with semicircular head and rusticated voussoirs. There are battered abutments to both faces either side of the arch, as well as a string course at road level. There are low parapets with rough coping to that to S and concrete coping to that to N.

Historical information

A bridge is not shown on the OS map of 1905, but does appear on that of 1933.

References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS/6/1/34/5 OS map, Co Antim sheet 34 (6in series) 1933

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
H-. Alterations detracting from building
J. Setting

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

Single arch road bridge of perhaps c.1920-25 in squared basalt rubble, carrying the Drumcrow Road over the Linford Water.It is of local landscape importance.

Nearby in the register

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

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