Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Hagan's Bridge
Lisnamore, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Bridge
- Date of listing
- 27 May 1980
- Date of delisting
- 27 November 1997
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- Hagan's Bridge, Rocks Chapel Road, Lisnamore, Crossgar, Co Down
- Townland
- Lisnamore
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.38003, -5.76247
- Date of survey
- 22 May 2000
- HB reference
- HB18/04/023
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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
Single span road bridge of c.1856 built to carry the Rocks Chapel Road over a stretch of the Belfast & County Down Railway line as it passed from Crossgar to Downpatrick. The bridge is situated on the Rocks Chapel Road, roughly a mile S of Crossgar.
The bridge has a single elliptical arch and is in coursed rock-faced fieldstone. The arch has dressed sandstone voussoirs and there is a string course at arch springing level (which continues under the tunnel). The N face of the bridge is now largely covered in plant growth. The S face is completely obscured by plant growth and almost nothing can be seen of it. The arch to the S side has been almost completely blocked up with breeze blocks, and the underside of the bridge is now used as an informal cattle shed.
The road over the bridge is covered in tarmac. The parapets have coping. The parapet to the S is largely covered in plant growth.
Historical information
This bridge was 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
Single span road bridge of c.1856 by Sir John MacNeill, built to carry the Rocks Chapel Road over a stretch of the Belfast & County Down Railway line as it passed from Crossgar to Downpatrick. The line closed in 1950 and the south end of the bridge’s arch is now largely bricked up.
Nearby in the register
- Railway archDemolishedunder 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.