Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Bridge
Kilmood/ Balloo, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Bridge
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- Bridge, Ballybunden Road, Kilmood/Balloo, Balloo, Killinchy, Co Down
- Townland
- Kilmood/ Balloo
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.47608, -5.69967
- Date of survey
- 07 July 1998
- HB reference
- HB24/17/041
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Shown on 5 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
Small road bridge over the River Blackwater, just to the NW of the hamlet of Balloo. The bridge is constructed in snecked basalt rubble with a single, low, segmental arch with sandstone voussoirs. The low parapet has rough coping and is partly covered by greenery. The area around the bridge is wooded and the bridge is not readily visible from the road.
Historical information
This bridge is marked on the OS maps of 1834 and 1859-60.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS Maps 1st ed. 1834, Co. Down 17.
2 PRONI OS Maps 1st rev. 1859-60, Co. Down 17.
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
Low road bridge, over the River Blackwater, in basalt rubble and sandstone. This bridge may be of pre 1834 origin but its appearance has a greater regularity than other bridges in the area.
Nearby in the register
- The RocksHouseunder 1 mi
- Killinchy Non-subcribing Presbyterian ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
- 21-23 Saintfield RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- Coulter HouseHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.