Craigacat Bridge, Loughareema Road, Cushendall, Ballymena, Co. Antrim

A skew-arched masonry road bridge of 1834 over a minor stream on the Cushendall - Ballycastle road. The bridge is constructed in random rubble mica schist. The abutment quoins are of rusticated and margined sandstone blocks. There is also a shallow buttress on its downstream left-bank side, with similar quoins. The arch is of semicircular profile with vee-jointed voussoirs detailed as the quoins. Its soffit has been gunited. A moulded sandstone string course runs across each face above the arch crown. The parapet copings are of roughly-hewn schist with larger latter blocks at each end. A sandstone plaque is set into the road face of the upstream (NE) parapet. It reads "Craigacat/ 1834". There are slightly lower rubble masonry approach walls beyond the bridge proper, all now coped with concrete. The bridge has been repointed in sand/cement. Setting: The bridge lies on exposed open moorland. The shallow valley created by the stream has been embanked up to create a level road crossing.