Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB11/08/015

Address :
Dudgeon Bridge Dunwish Road Omagh Co. Tyrone BT78 5PH

Townland:
Dunwish/Calkill

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Survey 2:
B2

Date of Listing:
01/06/2011 00:00:00

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:
120-10

IG Ref:
H4072 7592

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Owner Category

Transport

Exterior Description And Setting

A three-span road bridge with hump-back profile, built c.1780, carrying Dunwish Road over Fairywater. Random rubble abutments, spandrels and parapets, raising to point at centre; dressed rockfaced sandstone coping to parapets. Three segmental-headed arches (larger to centre) with rubble voussoirs; V-shaped cutwaters to piers over rendered plinth. Arch soffits are cement rendered. The carriageway is approximately 4m wide. Parapet wall continues to west to form boundary wall of surrounding agricultural land; at east, parapet continues to junction at road end. The bridge is located on a rural road to the north of Omagh within agricultural
setting; farm complex to east. Roof N/A Walling Random rubble Windows N/A RWG N/A

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

The bridge is shown on the first edition of 1833 captioned ‘Dudgeon Bridge’. The bridge has a large arch to centre giving it a hump-back form, typical of seventeenth century packhorse bridges but the multi-span construction and presence of a parapet wall (absent in early bridges) indicates that the bridge is of late eighteenth-century date. References: Primary Sources 1. PRONI OS/6/6/34/1 –First Edition OS Map (1833) 2. PRONI OS/6/6/34/2 –Second Edition OS Map (1853) 3. PRONI OS/6/6/34/3 –Third Edition OS Map (1905-6)

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion C. Ornamentation D. Plan Form F. Structural System H-. Alterations detracting from building J. Setting

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

A three-span road bridge, built c.1780, carrying Dunwish Road over Fairywater. This substantial bridge follows has a hump-back form typical of seventeenth century packhorse bridges but the multi-span construction indicates that the bridge is of a later date. Of interest is the pointed profile of the parapet wall. The bridge remains largely unchanged and the structure, of significant merit, survives as a good example of eighteenth century engineering demonstrating an unusual combination of features.

General Comments

New listing.

Date of Survey

06 May 2009