Muckamore Bridge, Oldstone Road, Muckamore, Antrim, Co Antrim

A five-arched masonry bridge, widened partly in brickwork, carrying the main road over the Six Mile Water. Built mainly of blackstone rubble with rough stone voussoirs to segmental arches, rubble vaults, and the piers faced with triangular cutwaters of similar rubble, but the northern arches on the upstream side have been rebuilt with brick voussoirs and vaults, and their piers faced with lower triangular cutwaters of coursed basalt. On the west face the spandrels and parapet are of basalt rubble, in the same plane, but the top of the parapet has been newly rebuilt. On the east face the spandrels of the southern arches are set back slightly below the parapet, all of basalt rubble, but the spandrels of the rebuilt northern arches are flush with the parapet and all stonework of the northern portion is of quarry dressed basalt, with the parapet capped in cement render. Carriageway is flat, with a raised footpath on the west side. SETTING: The bridge stands in a rural area which is currently being developed with housing adjacent to the south end of the bridge on the west side. The bank on the east side at the south end is of comparatively flat grass; to the west side at the south end the bank has been rebuilt with basalt rocks; both banks at the north end are steep, with mature trees and thick bushes. At the north end the parapets extend to abut a railway bridge (HB20/13/008).