Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB16/27/008

Address :
Railway Bridge Doran’s Hill Newry Co Down

Townland:
Ballinlare

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Bridge

Former Use
Bridge

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
Yes

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
266/10

IG Ref:
J0719 2552

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Owner Category

Transport

Exterior Description And Setting

This bridge carries the main Belfast - Dublin double-track railway over a minor road. It comprises a slightly skewed horizontal span of reinforced-concrete girders the ends of which are supported on reinforced-concrete abutments. The wing walls of the abutments are faced with squared granodiorite rubble laid in irregular courses and coped with rusticated blocks. A two-bar galvanised metal safety rail runs across on both sides. Two height warning signs (11ft and 3.4m) are affixed to both faces.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

This bridge is a modern rebuild, probably erected in the 1980s when a number of bridges between Newry and the border were blown up by terrorists. It replaced the 1851 original designed by Sir John Macneill and built by William Dargan for the Dublin & Belfast Junction Railway Company. Primary Source: 1. W.A. Mc Cutcheon, 'Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland' (Belfast 1980).

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Of interest only in so far as it demonstrates the technical development of railway bridge design when compared, say, with HB16/27/003.

General Comments

Date of Survey

30 December 1997