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Bridge over Clady Water

Ballymather Lower, Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bridge over Clady Water, Ballymather Lower, Antrim and Newtownabbey, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Record only (not listed)
Grade
Record Only
Type
Bridge
Date of construction
1800 - 1819
Address
Bridge over Clady Water, Printshop Road, Nutts Corner, Crumlin, Co Antrim
Townland
Ballymather Lower
Council
Antrim and Newtownabbey
Country
Northern Ireland
Coordinates
54.66397, -6.08757
Date of survey
22 April 2000
HB reference
HB20/13/021

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1808 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1817 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A twin-arched masonry bridge carrying a road over the Clady Water.

Built of basalt rubble with rough stone voussoirs to segmental arches. Piers are faced with a triangular cutwater on each face. Rounded cement rendered copings over the river with rough stone copings beyond. Recessed arch and spandrel panel. Slightly humped carriageway, with grassy verges. Long approach wall on south side at east end, containing a segmental archway for flood water.
Cutwater on north side has been capped with concrete supporting a services pipe across face of arches.

SETTING: The bridge stands in a very rural area surrounded by rolling agricultural land; grassy banks with mature trees. Parapet on north side at west end now abutted by a new basalt rubble screen wall to a new entrance gateway to a nearby property.

Historical information

Precise date of bridge not known but it appears on the OS map of 1833. The bridge is not recorded in the Industrial Heritage Record.

References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1833, Co Antrim 56.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This is a bridge of at least early 19th century date, of no special architectural merit or historic interest.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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