Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Bridge
Raleagh, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Bridge
- Date of listing
- 31 March 2005
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- Bridge, Downpatrick Road, Cumber / Drumnaconagher, Ballynahinch, Co Down
- Townland
- Raleagh
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.37655, -5.84836
- Date of survey
- 12 October 2000
- HB reference
- HB18/05/008
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
Rubble built road bridge of possible pre 1834 construction carrying the Cumber Road over the Ballynahinch River. The bridge is located roughly 2.5 miles E of Ballynahinch.
The bridge is in random fieldstone rubble. There are two segmental arches with a cutwater between and buttresses close to the banks on each side. The lower portions of the bridge have been reinforced in concrete. The road is covered in Tarmac.
Historical information
A bridge is shown on this site on the OS map of 1834. Given the relative simplicity of the present structure it is possible that this is substantially the same bridge indicated on the map.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS/6/3/30/1 OS map, Down sh 30, 1834
2 PRONI OS/6/3/30/2 OS map, Down sh 30, 1858
Secondary sources
1 Peter O’Keefe and Tom Simington ‘Irish stone bridges: History and heritage’ (Irish Academic Press 1991)
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
D. Plan Form
F. Structural System
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Evaluation
Rubble built double arch road bridge, of possible pre 1834 construction, carrying the Cumber Road over the Ballynahinch River. Of special interest for its age, style , proportion, unaltered plan and double arch .
Nearby in the register
- Russells BridgeBridgeunder 1 mi
- 8 RIVERSIDE COTTAGESHOUSEunder 1 mi
- 7 RIVERSIDE COTTAGESHOUSEunder 1 mi
- 6 RIVERSIDE COTTAGESHOUSEunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.