Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB18/04/023

Address :
Hagan's Bridge Rocks Chapel Road Lisnamore Crossgar Co Down

Townland:
Lisnamore

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:
27/05/1980 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:
27/11/1997 00:00:00

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:
205/10

IG Ref:
J4543 5024

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Owner Category

Exterior Description And Setting

Single span road bridge of c.1856 built to carry the Rocks Chapel Road over a stretch of the Belfast & County Down Railway line as it passed from Crossgar to Downpatrick. The bridge is situated on the Rocks Chapel Road, roughly a mile S of Crossgar. The bridge has a single elliptical arch and is in coursed rock-faced fieldstone. The arch has dressed sandstone voussoirs and there is a string course at arch springing level (which continues under the tunnel). The N face of the bridge is now largely covered in plant growth. The S face is completely obscured by plant growth and almost nothing can be seen of it. The arch to the S side has been almost completely blocked up with breeze blocks, and the underside of the bridge is now used as an informal cattle shed. The road over the bridge is covered in tarmac. The parapets have coping. The parapet to the S is largely covered in plant growth.

Architects

Macneill, Sir John

Historical Information

This bridge was built in c.1856 to carry the Rocks Chapel Road over the newly cut stretch of the Belfast & County Down Railway between Crossgar and Downpatrick. It was designed by the BCDR’s chief engineer Sir John MacNeill and constructed by his principal contractor, Patrick Moore. The line itself closed in 1950. References- Primary sources 1 PRONI OS/6/3/30/2 OS map, 1860, Down 30 2 PRONI OS/6/3/30/3 OS map, 1901, Down 30 3 PRONI OS/6/3/30/4 OS map, 1920, Down 30 Secondary sources 1 W.A. MacCutcheon ‘The industrial archaeology of Northern Ireland’ (Belfast HMSO 1980), p.142 etc. 2 Desmond Coakham ‘Belfast & County Down Railway (Midland Publishing Ltd. 1998)

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Single span road bridge of c.1856 by Sir John MacNeill, built to carry the Rocks Chapel Road over a stretch of the Belfast & County Down Railway line as it passed from Crossgar to Downpatrick. The line closed in 1950 and the south end of the bridge’s arch is now largely bricked up.

General Comments

Date of Survey

22 May 2000