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

The site formerly held a bridge, constructed between 1840 and 1859 to carry a road over the Ulster Railway line connecting Lurgan and Portadown. Located at the end of a now-disused road, south of Carbet Road and approximately a mile north of Craigavon, the bridge spanned a railway cutting. The road was abandoned in the early 1970s, and the bridge was partially dismantled before July 1974, with complete demolition occurring sometime afterward. A 1974 survey described the remaining structure as a road bridge over the railway, with the ends cut away by new roads at a lower level. It featured an elliptical arch constructed from sandstone ashlar with V-jointed voussoirs, a bevel spring course, bevel quoins, and a brick intrados. The bridge had margin joints and rock-faced, battered piers with rough-dressed basalt abutments, alongside remnants of insulated piping. The upper parapet was built from brick with heavy stone coping. The bridge, approximately 22 feet wide over the parapets, was noted as disconnected and likely to be removed. The bridge's construction in 1842 coincided with the extension of the Ulster Railway. It was likely designed by William Dargan or John Godwin, the railway company’s engineers. It is marked as 'Balteagh Bridge' on a revised map from 1860. The road and bridge were abandoned during the development of Craigavon in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The site retains industrial archaeological interest.