Bridge, Derryork Road, Dungiven, Co Londonderry

A single arch cut stone road bridge over the Gelvin River on the Derryork Road. A single segmental arch of approximately 8 metre span with well cut rock face voissoirs with tooled margins. Soffit or intrados of arch in cut stone with inclined beds as the vault of the bridge is on a slight skew. On either side of the arch the abutments are battered and built in rockfaced ashlar sandstone. There are no breakwaters. The walls of the bridge are carried up to form a good parapet finished with squared copings and forming rounded ends at each extremity. The parapet walls are 30 metres in length and the carriage width 5 metres. The bridge is sited in pleasant agricultural landscape. About 80 metres downstream the river turns at right angles to negotiate the railway embankment formed c1880s when the railway was established between Limavady and Dungiven.