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Monkstown Bridge over Railway, Jordanstown Road, Newtownabbey,

Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Monkstown Bridge over Railway, Jordanstown Road, Newtownabbey, 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
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

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1697 · Scotia, Parte Meridionale (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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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 The bridge appears to have been replaced by a similar reinforced concrete bridge c.1994.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 The bridge appears to have been replaced by a similar reinforced concrete bridge c.1994.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

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

Department for Communities, Historic Environment Division, Historic Buildings Record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Department for Communities, Historic Environment Division · Open Government Licence v3.0
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