Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB24/13/073

Address :
Ballyrickard Bridge (formerly over railway) Moate Road Ballyrickard Comber Co. Down BT23 4XA

Townland:
Ballyrickard

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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:
148/7

IG Ref:
J4812 7079

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Owner Category

Exterior Description And Setting

Road bridge (over a former railway line/tunnel) on the Moate Road, c.1.5 miles NE of Comber. The bridge is built of rock faced, dressed sandstone. To the NE side the archway is largely filled (the cutting has been filled in). To each side of the arch is a battered pier and above the arch is a slightly projecting course. Coping to parapet. To the SW side of the road the railway line appears to have travelled underground so that all that can be seen is a low sandstone wall, now with much in the way of rubble and greenery against it. The road itself is covered in tarmac.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

This bridge was constructed as part of the railway line (Belfast & Co. Down Railway) linking Belfast, Comber and Newtownards, which opened in May 1850. The line was abandoned in 1953. This bridge appears to have been over a tunnel section of the line. References- Primary sources 1 PRONI OS Maps 1st rev. 1859-60, Co. Down 10. Secondary sources 1 E.M. Patterson 'The Belfast & County Down railway' (Lingfield: Oakwood Press 1958). 2 E.R.R. Green 'The industrial archaeology of Co. Down' (HMSO 1963), p.62. 3 W.A. McCutcheon 'The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland' (HMSO 1980), pp.174-177.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Sandstone road bridge (over a railway line/tunnel) of 1848-50, now partly submerged to the north east side.

General Comments

Date of Survey

09 September 1998