Site of Balteagh Bridge, Off Carbet Road, Balteagh, Craigavon, Co Armagh

Site -at the end of the now disused road, south of Carbet Road, less than a mile north of Craigavon- formerly occupied by a bridge, built in 1842 to carry the road over a railway cutting. The road was abandoned in the early 1970s and the bridge was partially taken down before July 1974, and totally demolished at some point after this date. The first survey report of July 1974 reads: ‘Remnant of a road bridge over railway, with ends cut away by new roads [set] at lower level. Elliptical arch in sandstone ashlar, V-joint voussoirs, bevel spring course, bevel quoins [and] brick intrados. Margin joint, rock-faced battered piers each side of rough dressed basalt abutments. Bevel sill course. Upper parapet in brick with heavy stone coping. Remnants of insulated piping alongside. Condition- being disconnected, bridge likely to be removed. About 22ft over parapets’.