Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB11/04/009

Address :
Greenan Bridge, Dromore, Omagh, Co.Tyrone

Townland:
Greenan

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Survey 2:
B2

Date of Listing:
08/07/1991 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:
136-15

IG Ref:
H3264 6739

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Owner Category

Transport

Exterior Description And Setting

Four-span flat stone road-over-river bridge, erected c.1850, carrying the road on a northeast-southwest axis across a river. Four round-headed arches formed in tooled ashlar voussoirs rising from rounded v-cutwaters and ashlar spandrels with a projecting ashlar stringcourse to the base of the parapet. To either end of both elevations is a full-height ashlar pier with rubble-stone parapets above the stringcourse having barrel coping stones. Curved rubble-stone abutments to the south elevation only, and terminating in a further ashlar pier to the southwest only. Ashlar soffits to all arches with some shuttered concrete repairs. Roof N/A Walling Stone Windows N/A Rainwater goods N/A

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

The bridge first appears on the second edition OS map of 1854, captioned ‘Greenan Bridge’. It may have been built to serve the occupants of a nearby property called ‘The Holme’, which is described in Griffith’s Valuation of 1858 as a ‘house, office and land’ occupied by John Sproule and valued at £12. References: Primary Sources 1. PRONI OS/6/6/41/1 (1833) 2. PRONI OS/6/6/41/2 (1853)

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion C. Ornamentation D. Plan Form F. Structural System J. Setting

Historic Interest

X. Local Interest

Evaluation

Four-span flat stone road-over-river bridge, erected c.1850. A well-executed stone bridge of the mid-nineteenth-century crossing a small river in a rural location. Probably built to serve nearby Holme House, this structure exhibits all the attributes of nineteenth-century engineering and fine stone masonry.

General Comments

Date of Survey

13 February 2009