Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Dudgeon Bridge
Dunwish/Calkill, Fermanagh and Omagh, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Bridge
- Date of listing
- 1 June 2011
- Date of construction
- 1780 - 1799
- Address
- Dudgeon Bridge, Dunwish Road, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, BT78 5PH
- Townland
- Dunwish/Calkill
- Council
- Fermanagh and Omagh
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.62984, -7.37031
- Date of survey
- 06 May 2009
- HB reference
- HB11/08/015
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A three-span road bridge with hump-back profile, built c.1780, carrying Dunwish Road over Fairywater. Random rubble abutments, spandrels and parapets, raising to point at centre; dressed rockfaced sandstone coping to parapets. Three segmental-headed arches (larger to centre) with rubble voussoirs; V-shaped cutwaters to piers over rendered plinth. Arch soffits are cement rendered.
The carriageway is approximately 4m wide. Parapet wall continues to west to form boundary wall of surrounding agricultural land; at east, parapet continues to junction at road end.
The bridge is located on a rural road to the north of Omagh within agricultural
setting; farm complex to east.
Roof N/A
Walling Random rubble
Windows N/A
RWG N/A
Historical information
The bridge is shown on the first edition of 1833 captioned ‘Dudgeon Bridge’.
The bridge has a large arch to centre giving it a hump-back form, typical of seventeenth century packhorse bridges but the multi-span construction and presence of a parapet wall (absent in early bridges) indicates that the bridge is of late eighteenth-century date.
References:
Primary Sources
1. PRONI OS/6/6/34/1 –First Edition OS Map (1833)
2. PRONI OS/6/6/34/2 –Second Edition OS Map (1853)
3. PRONI OS/6/6/34/3 –Third Edition OS Map (1905-6)
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
F. Structural System
H-. Alterations detracting from building
J. Setting
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Evaluation
A three-span road bridge, built c.1780, carrying Dunwish Road over Fairywater. This substantial bridge follows has a hump-back form typical of seventeenth century packhorse bridges but the multi-span construction indicates that the bridge is of a later date. Of interest is the pointed profile of the parapet wall. The bridge remains largely unchanged and the structure, of significant merit, survives as a good example of eighteenth century engineering demonstrating an unusual combination of features.
General comments
New listing.
Nearby in the register
- Dunwish CottageHouseunder 1 mi
- HouseNo type recordedunder 1 mi
- Clarks BridgeBridgeunder 1 mi
- McClays BridgeBridge1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.