Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Former railway bridge
Castleaverry, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Bridge
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- Former railway bridge, (W of Landsdowne estate), Castleaverry, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT23
- Townland
- Castleaverry
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.57505, -5.70678
- Date of survey
- 09 September 1998
- HB reference
- HB24/13/072
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 1794 "Sheet 55. (Cary's England, Wales, and Scotland)." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Former railway bridge (over a narrow lane), to the W of a new housing estate (‘Landsdowne Estate’) roughly a mile S of Newtownards.
This bridge is in coursed rock faced sandstone with a semicircular arch with V-jointed voussoirs. Both faces of the bridge are largely overgrown and little can be seen, but there are curved approaches to each side with abutments. There is coping to the parapet with a projecting band beneath. The top of the bridge appears to be overgrown.
Historical information
This bridge was constructed as part of the railway line (Belfast & Co. Down Railway) linking Belfast, Comber and Newtownards, which opened in May 1850. The line was abandoned in 1953.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS Maps 1st rev. 1859-60, Co. Down 5.
Secondary sources
1 E.M. Patterson 'The Belfast & County Down railway' (Lingfield: Oakwood Press 1958).
2 E.R.R. Green 'The industrial archaeology of Co. Down' (HMSO 1963), p.62.
3 W.A. McCutcheon 'The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland' (HMSO 1980), p.174-177.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Sandstone railway bridge (over a narrow lane), built c.1848-50, now unused and overgrown but seemingly largely intact.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.