Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Annaghmore Bridge, Clonmacash Road, Portadown, Craigavon, Co Armagh
Annaghmore, Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Bridge
- Date of listing
- 20 February 2006
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- Annaghmore Bridge, Clonmacash Road, Portadown, Craigavon, Co Armagh
- Townland
- Annaghmore
- Council
- Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.46054, -6.58365
- Date of survey
- 31 December 2004
- HB reference
- HB15/02/044
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1838 "Ireland, north sheet." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A single-arched masonry bridge carrying a public road over a former railway track. It is aligned approximately north to south.
Built of snecked basalt rubble with an elliptical archway of shaped limestone voussoirs and a limestone vault. Abutments project forward to each side of the archway on both faces, with raking profile, of snecked basalt rubble and rough basalt rubble copings; copings now missing from southern abutment on west face. Humped carriageway.
SETTING: The bridge stands in a rural area with fields to each side; railway track removed.
Historical information
Built to carry a public road over the Portadown, Dungannon and Omagh branch line of the Great Northern Railway which was opened in 1858, probably to the designs of their engineer at the time, John Godwin. The line closed in 1965.
References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1859, Co Armagh 5 (named 'Annaghmore Bridge').
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
This is an example of Victorian bridge engineering in stone built to carry a public road over the Portadown, Dungannon and Omagh branch line of the Great Northern Railway which was opened in 1858, probably to the designs of their engineer at the time, John Godwin.
Nearby in the register
- Former Annaghmore StationNo type recordedunder 1 mi
- AOH Hall, 18 Annaghmore Road, Portadown, Co Armagh, BT62 1NAHallunder 1 mi
- McGowan's BridgeBridgeunder 1 mi
- St John's Roman Catholic ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.