Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Killylane Bridge
Killylane, Mid and East Antrim, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Bridge
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- Killylane Bridge, Larne Road, Kilwaughter, Larne, Co Antrim
- Townland
- Killylane
- Council
- Mid and East Antrim
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.82799, -6.01788
- Date of survey
- 28 March 1998
- HB reference
- HB06/07/014
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 single arched masonry bridge carrying the main road over a stream, built of snecked basalt with rusticated greystone voussoirs to the segmental arch, and a projecting platband at intermediate level between the arch and the parapet, continuing as raking copings to angled abutments. Abutments and parapets are broken forward at each end to form piers with battered faces; humped copings of greystone to parapets, with feathered extensions over the end piers. To each side, across top of arch, is a later strengthening tie bar of iron, now rusted.
The bridge stands in a very rural
setting in an open hilly landscape.
Historical information
The year of construction is not recorded but it appears on OS map of 1857; may be attributed to the architect and engineer Charles Lanyon, County Surveyor of Antrim from 1836 to 1860.
References - Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1857, Co Antrim 39.
Secondary Sources
1. IHR 6952.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
This is an example of early Victorian bridge engineering of conventional but typical design, attributable to the prominent architect and engineer Charles Lanyon, but its appearance is spoiled by later alteration.
Nearby in the register
- Collin RoadHouse3 mi
- MosestownHouse3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.