Florida Bridge

Kilmood/ Ballymacashen, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland

The record

Designation: Record only (not listed)
Grade: Record Only
Type: Bridge
Date of construction: 1820 - 1839
Address: Florida Bridge, Florida Road, Kilmood/Ballymacashen, Killinchy, Co Down, BT23
Townland: Kilmood/ Ballymacashen
Council: Ards and North Down
Country: Northern Ireland
Coordinates: 54.47545, -5.73273
Date of survey: 08 July 1998
HB reference: HB24/17/031

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Exterior description and setting

Random rubble built road bridge on the Florida Road, just N of the Saintfield c1.5 miles W of the hamlet of Balloo.
The bridge spans the River Blackwater and has a single segmental arch which springs from a rock foundation (on N side at least). The arch has narrow voussoirs. Long abutments. Flat coping to parapets. Bridge partly covered in greenery. Gentle twist in road. The bridge appears to be in reasonably good condition.

Historical information

This bridge is marked as ‘Florida Bridge’ on the OS Maps of 1834 and 1859-60.

References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS Maps 1st ed. 1834, Co. Down 16.
2 PRONI OS Maps 1st rev. 1859-60, Co. Down 16.

Secondary sources
1 Fred Hammond “Communications in Co. Down” in 'Down- History and society, ed Lindsay Proudfoot' (Dublin 1997), pp.599-628.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Rubble built bridge of probable pre 1834 origin still (apparently) in reasonably good condition.

Nearby in the register

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

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