Lower bridge over Glenoe Water

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A single-arched hump-backed bridge over the Glenoe water, built of basalt rubble with rough stone voussoirs to segmental arches and rough stone copings. Parapet rebuilt at south end on west face, with copings re-set in thick cement mortar. Projecting concrete plinth to each abutment under arch. Alongside bridge on south side of west face is a small rivulet, formerly a mill stream.

Setting: the bridge stands within the village with old buildings of early 19th century date adjacent on the east side and modern buildings to the west side. Immediately to the east are grassy areas which allow the bridge to be easily seen, but immediately to the west late modern garden terraces encroach to block an overall view of the bridge.

Historical information

Appears on OS map of 1832.

References - Primary Sources

1. OS Map 1832, Co Antrim 46.
2. Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol 32: Parishes of Co Antrim XII (Belfast, 1995), p 119.

Secondary Sources
1. D. Corcoran, A Tour of East Antrim: Historic photographs from the W.A. Green Collection in the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum (Friar’s Bush Press, Belfast, 1990), pp 20 and 21 [photos of Glenoe include this bridge].
2. IHR 7531.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This is a bridge of late Georgian date which retains its essentially original appearance and so helps to contribute to the vernacular charm which characterises the village but it has had significant alterations to its fabric and changes to its setting.