Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB24/16/016 B

Address :
Bridge at Solitude, Belfast Road, Edenslate, Ballygowan, Co. Down BT23

Townland:
Edenslate

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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:
167/5

IG Ref:
J4221 6528

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Owner Category

Central Govt

Exterior Description And Setting

Road bridge carrying the Belfast Road over a former mill race, roughly a mile N of Ballygowan. The bridge is random rubble built with a single small semicircular arch. The W face appears largely untouched and has a low parapet to the roadside, whilst that to the E appears to have been partly reconstructed (using fresh random rubble) and has a taller parapet with ‘spiky’ rubble coping.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

A bridge is shown on the OS maps of 1834 and 1858, carrying the road over a mill race serving a near by ‘Knockmasham’ corn mill. References- Primary sources 1 PRONI OS map 1st ed. 1834, Down 10. 2 ‘Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Vol.7: Parishes of County Down II’, ed. Angelique Day and Patrick McWilliams (QUB 1991), pp. 37, 39. [‘Knockmasham’ mills are mentioned in the Memoirs.] 3 PRONI OS map 1st rev. 1858-60, Down 10. Secondary sources 1 W.A. McCutcheon ‘The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland’ (HMSO 1980), pp.15-16.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Small rubble-built bridge carrying the Belfast Road over a former mill race. One face of the bridge has been sympathetically repaired

General Comments

Date of Survey

19 January 1999