Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Railway Bridge
Ballinlare, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Bridge
- Date of construction
- 1980 - 1999
- Address
- Railway Bridge, Doran’s Hill, Newry, Co Down
- Townland
- Ballinlare
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.16752, -6.35954
- Date of survey
- 30 December 1997
- HB reference
- HB16/27/008
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDigital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library
Shown on 3 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1956 "Dublin" (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
This bridge carries the main Belfast - Dublin double-track railway over a minor road. It comprises a slightly skewed horizontal span of reinforced-concrete girders the ends of which are supported on reinforced-concrete abutments. The wing walls of the abutments are faced with squared granodiorite rubble laid in irregular courses and coped with rusticated blocks. A two-bar galvanised metal safety rail runs across on both sides. Two height warning signs (11ft and 3.4m) are affixed to both faces.
Historical information
This bridge is a modern rebuild, probably erected in the 1980s when a number of bridges between Newry and the border were blown up by terrorists. It replaced the 1851 original designed by Sir John Macneill and built by William Dargan for the Dublin & Belfast Junction Railway Company.
Primary Source:
1. W.A. Mc Cutcheon, 'Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland' (Belfast 1980).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Of interest only in so far as it demonstrates the technical development of railway bridge design when compared, say, with HB16/27/003.
Nearby in the register
- House 1,Houseunder 1 mi
- House 2,Demolishedunder 1 mi
- Cottage SW of Bernish BridgeHouseunder 1 mi
- Boundary Post near 1 Hillside Terrace Doran’s Hill Newry Co Down BT35 8ELBoundary Markerunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.