Railway Bridge, off Saintfield Road, Ballygowan, Co. Down, BT23 6HB

Railway bridge set at a slight skew over the Ballygowan River, to the N of the Saintfield Road, W of the centre of Ballygowan. Due to the closure of the railway, the apparent widening of the road, and the building of modern housing around the site, this bridge is almost totally invisible and largely inaccessible. The N face is hidden behind a mass of greenery to the E of a fairly recently constructed dwelling. This face is constructed in basalt rubble with a semicircular arch with sandstone voussoirs. The arch is flanked by large buttresses. The S face of the bridge faces directly into a steep bank (the course of the river turns 90o to the W at this point) and is inaccessible due not only to this bank but thick hedges which border it.