Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Bridge
Killaghy/ Lisnashillida, Fermanagh and Omagh, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Bridge
- Date of construction
- 1860 - 1879
- Address
- Bridge, Killaghy, Newtownbutler, Co Fermanagh, BT92
- Townland
- Killaghy/ Lisnashillida
- Council
- Fermanagh and Omagh
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.18949, -7.34939
- Date of survey
- 12 December 2000
- HB reference
- HB12/02/043
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 1854 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A single segmental span carries a one-and-a-half lane minor road over a stream. It is of randomly-laid finely-dressed limestone blocks throughout. Each voussoir is embellished with a rusticated keystone. The parapets end in out-projecting piers and are coped with finely dressed sandstone blocks with pitched top face; the pier copings have margined rustication to all faces.
Historical information
No road is shown on the 1834 OS 6" map. It existed by 1857, and a wooden bridge is explicitly captioned as crossing the stream at this point. An uncaptioned bridge, undoubtedly the present one, is on the 1907 map. It was therefore erected in the later 1800s, probably in the period 1860-79 (or possibly 1880-1899).
Primary sources:
1. OS 6" map, 1st edition (1834), Co Fermanagh sheet 40 (PRONI OS 6/4/40/1).
2. OS 6" map, 2nd edition (1857), Co Fermanagh sheet 40 (PRONI OS 6/4/40/2).
3. OS 6" map, 3rd edition (1907), Co Fermanagh sheet 40 (PRONI OS 6/4/40/3).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
A well executed bridge but of no special architectural, historical or landscape merit.
Nearby in the register
- FarmhouseHouseunder 1 mi
- Station HouseHouseunder 1 mi
- Lurganboy BridgeBridgeunder 1 mi
- St. Comgall's C.o.I ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.