Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Bridge carrying main road at
Ballylig, Mid and East Antrim, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Bridge
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- Bridge carrying main road at, Magheramorne Cement Works, 100 Shore Road, Magheramorne, Larne, Co Antrim
- Townland
- Ballylig
- Council
- Mid and East Antrim
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.81464, -5.76650
- Date of survey
- 30 May 1998
- HB reference
- HB06/05/042
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1831 "Scotland southern." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A segmental arched bridge carrying the main road over a tunnel access linking the former limestone quarry at Magheramorne with the quays to the north. Built of snecked basalt with shaped sandstone voussoirs to the arches; basalt rubble copings to parapet and similar raking copings to the splayed abutments. Later concrete strengthening at base of abutments within tunnel in form of blind arcading, probably to protect masonry from vehicular traffic.
Setting: the arched tunnel is situated in a rural location within a former limestone quarry, later a cement works; entrances much overgrown, and position of arches and parapets not easily identifiable at carriageway level above due to overgrowth of road verges. Appearance of archway spoiled by its use as a conduit for overhead industrial pipes.
Historical information
Appears on OS map of 1857; built c 1853 when the new road from Carrickfergus to Larne was laid out by Charles Lanyon, architect and engineer, who was County Surveyor at the time, and presumably attributable to him.
References - Primary
1. OS Map 1857, Co Antrim 41.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
A typical example of early Victorian bridge engineering, attributable to a leading architect and engineer of the time, but otherwise not of special interest, being modest in scale and conventional in design.
Nearby in the register
- Twin bridges over Shore RoadDemolishedunder 1 mi
- Railway bridges atBridgeunder 1 mi
- Concrete hoppersRural Industryunder 1 mi
- Lime kilns atRural Industryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.