Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Bridge
Claragh, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Bridge
- Date of listing
- 6 February 2006
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- Bridge, School Road, Claragh, near Clough, Downpatrick, County Down
- Townland
- Claragh
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.29516, -5.89063
- Date of survey
- 07 July 2000
- HB reference
- HB18/17/063
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Rubble built, single span hump-backed bridge of probable pre 1834 construction. The bridge carries the School Road over the Moneycarragh River and is located roughly 2.5 miles W of the village of Clough. It crosses the river at a right angle.
The bridge is in rubble fieldstone and has a very pronounced hump. The arch is roughly elliptical. The parapets have concrete copings.
Historical information
The general lack of engineering sophistication (i.e. the presence of a hump-back an the fact that it crosses the river at a right angle) suggests that this bridge is probably of pre 1830 construction and may be that shown on the OS map of 1834.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS/6/3/36/1 OS map, Down sh 36, c.1834
2 PRONI OS/6/3/36/2 OS map, Down sh 36, c.1858
3 PRONI OS/6/3/36/3 OS map, Down sh 36, c.1901
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
B. Proportion
F. Structural System
J. Setting
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Evaluation
Good example of a rubble built, single span hump-backed bridge of probable pre 1834 construction.
Nearby in the register
- KinelartyHouseunder 1 mi
- BALLYWILLWILL HOUSEHOUSE1 mi
- COACH YARDOUTBUILDINGS1 mi
- R C CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTIONCHURCH1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.