Greenan Bridge,

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Four-span flat stone road-over-river bridge, erected c.1850, carrying the road on a northeast-southwest axis across a river.

Four round-headed arches formed in tooled ashlar voussoirs rising from rounded v-cutwaters and ashlar spandrels with a projecting ashlar stringcourse to the base of the parapet. To either end of both elevations is a full-height ashlar pier with rubble-stone parapets above the stringcourse having barrel coping stones. Curved rubble-stone abutments to the south elevation only, and terminating in a further ashlar pier to the southwest only. Ashlar soffits to all arches with some shuttered concrete repairs.

Roof N/A
Walling Stone
Windows N/A
Rainwater goods N/A

Historical information

The bridge first appears on the second edition OS map of 1854, captioned ‘Greenan Bridge’.
It may have been built to serve the occupants of a nearby property called ‘The Holme’, which is described in Griffith’s Valuation of 1858 as a ‘house, office and land’ occupied by John Sproule and valued at £12.

References:

Primary Sources

1. PRONI OS/6/6/41/1 (1833)
2. PRONI OS/6/6/41/2 (1853)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
F. Structural System
J. Setting

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

Four-span flat stone road-over-river bridge, erected c.1850. A well-executed stone bridge of the mid-nineteenth-century crossing a small river in a rural location. Probably built to serve nearby Holme House, this structure exhibits all the attributes of nineteenth-century engineering and fine stone masonry.