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Bridge

Killaghy/ Lisnashillida, Fermanagh and Omagh, Northern Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bridge, Killaghy/Lisnashillida, Fermanagh and Omagh, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1854 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1854 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1857 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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