Bridge, Cannyreagh Road, Hogstown, Donaghadee, Co Down

Rubble-constructed single span, humped back road bridge of c.1859-60, built to carry the Cannyreagh Road over the (now removed) Newtownards-Donaghadee stretch of the Belfast & Co Down Railway. The structure is situated at a bend in the road, roughly half a mile W of Donaghadee. The bridge is largely in rock-faced fieldstone rubble with a single elliptical arch. The arch has rock-faced, v-jointed sandstone as voussoirs and quoins, and the intrados is brick lined. To each side of the arch, on the W face of the bridge, are splayed triangular buttresses. There is a string course at arch springing level and another just above the arch, both in sandstone. The latter course is only visible from the W face only, because the former railway cutting to the E has been largely filled in, obscuring much of this side of the bridge itself. The parapets have sandstone coping.