Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Rademan Bridge
Rademan / Carnacally, 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
- 21 November 1997
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- Rademan Bridge, Church Road, Rademan / Carnacally, Crossgar, Downpatrick, Co Down
- Townland
- Rademan / Carnacally
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.39567, -5.79152
- Date of survey
- 11 October 2000
- HB reference
- HB18/05/031
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Shown on 5 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
Slightly hump-backed, rubble built road bridge of probable pre 1834 construction, carrying the Church Road over the Ballynahinch River. The bridge is located roughly 1.5 miles W of Crossgar, close to the S entrance to the Rademon House estate.
A section of the wall has been rebuilt in part in recent years.
Historical information
A bridge is shown on this site on the OS maps of 1834 and 1858 and marked ‘Rademan Br.’ on the latter. Given its hump-back, right-angle orientation to the river and general lack of fineness, it is probable that the structure we see today is pre 1834.
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
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Slightly hump-backed, rubble built road bridge of probable pre 1834 construction, carrying the Church Road over the Ballynahinch River. Partly rebuilt in recent years and with a disfiguring attachement to one side, the bridge is not considered to be of special architectural or historic interest.
Nearby in the register
- Sharman Crawford monumentMemorialunder 1 mi
- Outbuildings at Rademon HouseHouseunder 1 mi
- Rademan HouseNo type recordedunder 1 mi
- Kilmore church yard(s)Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.