McGowan's Bridge, Eglish Road, Portadown, Craigavon, Co Armagh is a listed building in the Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
McGowan's Bridge, Eglish Road, Portadown, Craigavon, Co Armagh
- WRENN ID
- slow-lead-mint
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon
- Constituency
- Upper Bann MP: Carla Lockhart (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- H 931 576
- Coordinates
- 54.45864, -6.56505
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
McGowan's Bridge is a Victorian-era stone bridge built between 1840 and 1859. It carries a public road over the former route of the Portadown, Dungannon and Omagh branch line of the Great Northern Railway, which opened in 1858 and closed in 1965. The bridge was likely designed by John Godwin, the railway’s engineer at the time. It is a single-arched masonry structure aligned north to south, built of snecked basalt rubble with an elliptical archway formed of shaped voussoirs. The abutments have battered faces and project slightly on either side of the archway. Parapets are returned at the southern end, and the carriageway is slightly humped with grass verges. The bridge is located in a rural setting, surrounded by fields. The former railway line has been removed and its trackbed filled with earth, obscuring the railway tracks on both sides of the bridge. On the east side, the fill covers some of the arch’s voussoirs. The bridge is considered to have industrial archaeological interest.
Local climate
McGowan's Bridge, Eglish Road, Portadown, Craigavon, Co Armagh receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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