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Bridge over railway

Crosshill, Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bridge over railway, Crosshill, 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
1840 - 1859
Address
Bridge over railway, Largy Road, Crumlin, Co Antrim
Townland
Crosshill
Council
Antrim and Newtownabbey
Country
Northern Ireland
Coordinates
54.62873, -6.22148
Date of survey
10 May 1999
HB reference
HB20/14/026

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1838 map "Ireland, north sheet." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1838 · Ireland, north sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Scotland (Southern part). XIII (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A single arched masonry skew bridge carrying the main road over a railway line, built of basalt rubble with a segmental archway of shaped rock-faced voussoirs with tooled arrises. Battered faces to abutments, breaking forward from the spandrels. Vaulting of brickwork laid diagonally. Parapet coping of roughly shaped sandstone blocks. Carriageway hump-backed.

SETTING: The bridge stands in a very rural area, with dense growth of trees bordering the embankments, and hedges running up to the parapet ends.

Historical information

Built to carry the main road from Langford Lodge to Belfast over the Dublin and Antrim Junction Railway, a branch line of the Great Northern Railway; date of construction uncertain but it appears on the OS map of 1858.

References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1858, Co Antrim 59.
Secondary Sources
1. W.A. McCutcheon, The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland (HMSO, Belfast, 1980), p 110 (but states that the branch line from Knockmore Junction to Antrim was constructed between 1864 and 1871 which is after it appears on the OS map of 1857).
2. IHR 7204.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This is an example of early Victorian bridge engineering in stone and brick, of unspoiled appearance, but is otherwise not of any special or unusual 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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