ARDCLINIS BRIDGE, ARDCLINIS TL, Glenariff, Ballymena, CO.ANTRIM

An 1830s single-arch masonry road bridge over the Ardclinis Burn on the Antrim Coast Road between Garron Point and Glenariff. The bridge is of randomly-sized squared basalt rubble brought to courses. Its low abutments spring directly from the rock. Its shallow segmental arch is embellished with dressed sandstone voussoirs and its soffit is of squared basalt blocks. There is also a dressed sandstone string course cross both faces, just above the arch crown. The parapets terminate in out-projecting piers around which the string courses continue. Both parapets were originally coped with sloping sandstone flags, but these have largely been replaced with concrete slabs on the upstream one. Minor repairs have been effected in shuttered mass concrete to the crown of the arch soffit and a small satellite dish has been affixed to the upstream face of the bridge's E end. Setting: Immediately SE of this bridge, a laneway runs up to a modern farmhouse. At SW is a front garden to a modern bungalow. A short distance downstream (to N) are the remains of the earlier hump-backed rubble basalt road bridge. Its two semicircular arches have partly collapsed, as have its parapets and upstream cutwater.