Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB14/04/008

Address :
Site of Balteagh Bridge Off Carbet Road Balteagh Craigavon Co Armagh

Townland:
Balteagh

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Demolished

Former Use
Bridge

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
Yes

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
Demolished

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OS Map No:
182/9

IG Ref:
J0418 5735

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Owner Category

Exterior Description And Setting

Site -at the end of the now disused road, south of Carbet Road, less than a mile north of Craigavon- formerly occupied by a bridge, built in 1842 to carry the road over a railway cutting. The road was abandoned in the early 1970s and the bridge was partially taken down before July 1974, and totally demolished at some point after this date. The first survey report of July 1974 reads: ‘Remnant of a road bridge over railway, with ends cut away by new roads [set] at lower level. Elliptical arch in sandstone ashlar, V-joint voussoirs, bevel spring course, bevel quoins [and] brick intrados. Margin joint, rock-faced battered piers each side of rough dressed basalt abutments. Bevel sill course. Upper parapet in brick with heavy stone coping. Remnants of insulated piping alongside. Condition- being disconnected, bridge likely to be removed. About 22ft over parapets’.

Architects

Godwin, John Dargan, William

Historical Information

The bridge formerly spanning this railway cutting was built in 1842, when the Ulster Railway was extended from Lurgan to Portadown. It was probably designed either by William Dargan or John Godwin, the company’s engineers. The bridge is marked on the revised map of 1860 as ‘Balteagh Br[idge]’. With the development of the new town of Craigavon in the late 1960s and early 1970s this particular stretch of road was abandoned, and the bridge subsequently demolished. References- Primary sources 1 PRONI OS/6/2/6/2 OS map, County Armagh sheet 6 (1860) Secondary sources 1 Oram, Richard, et al., ‘Historic Buildings…Craigavon’ (Belfast, 1970), part III, p.9 2 McCutcheon, W.A., ‘The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland’ (Belfast, 1980), pp.106-107 Other
references 1 EHS HB14/04/008 First survey record card (18th July 1974)

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Site formerly occupied by a bridge, built in 1842 to carry the road over the Ulster Railway line between Lurgan and Portadown.

General Comments

Date of Survey

15 July 2004