Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Railway arch
Lisnamore, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Demolished
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- Railway arch, off Rocks Chapel Road, Lisnamore, Crossgar, Co Down
- Townland
- Lisnamore
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.38156, -5.76223
- Date of survey
- 22 May 2000
- HB reference
- HB18/04/002
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 1794 "Sheet 55. (Cary's England, Wales, and Scotland)." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Possible site of an archway, (along a lane to the E of the Rocks Chapel Road, roughly a mile S of Crossgar), built in c.1856 to carry the former Belfast & County Down Railway line over a country lane.
The structure was described in September 1978 as ‘Single elliptical arch, rubble basalt, sandstone voussoirs, fielded boasted also string at road level’. Nothing discernible remains of the structure.
Historical information
Arches on this line were built in c.1856 to carry the Rocks Chapel Road over the newly cut stretch of the Belfast & County Down Railway between Crossgar and Downpatrick. It was designed by the BCDR’s chief engineer Sir John MacNeill and constructed by his principal contractor, Patrick Moore. The line itself closed in 1950.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS/6/3/30/2 OS map, 1860, Down 30
2 PRONI OS/6/3/30/3 OS map, 1901, Down 30
3 PRONI OS/6/3/30/4 OS map, 1920, Down 30
Secondary sources
1 W.A. MacCutcheon ‘The industrial archaeology of Northern Ireland’ (Belfast HMSO 1980), p.142 etc.
2 Desmond Coakham ‘Belfast & County Down Railway (Midland Publishing Ltd. 1998)
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Possible site of an archway, (along a lane to the E of the Rocks Chapel Road, roughly a mile S of Crossgar), built in c.1856 to carry the former Belfast & County Down Railway line over a country lane.
Nearby in the register
- Hagan's BridgeBridgeunder 1 mi
- RockvilleHouseunder 1 mi
- Cargagh HouseHouseunder 1 mi
- 9-11 Kilmore Village(Masons Bar)Houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.