Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Monkstown Bridge over Railway, Jordanstown Road, Newtownabbey,
Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- No type recorded
- Address
- Monkstown Bridge over Railway, Jordanstown Road, Newtownabbey,, Co.Antrim
- Council
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.69002, -5.90783
- Date of survey
- 15 October 2008
- HB reference
- HB21/11/002
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Single shallow segmental span reinforced concrete bridge, erected 1931, carrying the Jordanstown to Monkstown Road over the Belfast to Ballymena railway. The bridge appears to have been replaced by a similar reinforced concrete bridge c.1994. An original concrete date plaque has been embedded in a brick pier to the northeast where a further date plaque states “WIDENED 1994”.
Historical information
N/A
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Single shallow segmental span reinforced concrete bridge, erected 1931, carrying the Jordanstown to Monkstown Road over the Belfast to Ballymena railway. The bridge appears to have been replaced by a similar reinforced concrete bridge c.1994. An original concrete date plaque has been embedded in a brick pier to the northeast where a further date plaque states “WIDENED 1994”.
General comments
This building is not worthy of a full Second Survey. A partial record has been taken as this building was surveyed in the First Survey but not listed at that time.
Nearby in the register
- Bridge over Railway,No type recordedunder 1 mi
- Mount PleasantHouseunder 1 mi
- Church of St PatrickChurchunder 1 mi
- 6 Lenamore AvenueHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.