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McCartney's Bridge

Aughaboy, Mid and East Antrim, Northern Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of McCartney's Bridge, Aughaboy, Mid and East Antrim, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1900 map "Ireland" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1900 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1906 · Edinburgh. Scottish Lake District. Index Map: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Scotland - southern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The Department's description

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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