Culvert, East of Loughareema on former, Cushendun - Ballycastle Road, nr Loughareema Bridge

An 18th-century arched masonry culvert (a technical term for bridges spanning less than 2 metres) carrying the former Cushendun to Ballyvoy road over a stream, located 600 metres east of Lough Bridge on what is now the main Cushendun to Ballycastle road. The culvert stands in remote moorland surrounded on all sides by open countryside.

The structure is constructed of random rubble fieldstones and comprises a shallow segmental arch spanning approximately 1.85 metres. The road, roughly 4 metres wide, is raised at this point to cross the dip created by the stream. The embankment is pitched on both sides with rubble masonry and buttressed along its western face, though much of this facing has collapsed on both sides. Approximately half the arch at its upstream (eastern) end has also collapsed. No evidence of parapets remains.

All the culvert's original fabric appears unmodified, though it is now in poor condition. The road section containing this culvert runs for 4.8 kilometres as a single-lane greenway partly surfaced with compacted gravel in an almost straight line from the zig-zags near Cushendun to just south of Flughery Bridge. This is the only bridge along this stretch; other streams are crossed by small stone drains. At Flughery Bridge, the track turns north-west and continues as a tarmaced road for 6.4 kilometres to Ballyvoy and then onwards along the present main road to Ballycastle.

The road itself is shown on Lendrick's 1780 map of County Antrim and therefore existed long before the construction of the present main Cushendun to Ballycastle road in the 1830s and 1840s. Although no bridges are explicitly marked on Lendrick's map, this culvert would undoubtedly have been built at the same time as the road. The road and an unnamed bridge at this location are shown on the 1832 Ordnance Survey six-inch map and subsequent editions. The road and culvert are probably of mid-18th-century date, though it remains uncertain whether their construction was financed by the County Antrim Grand Jury or the local landlord, the Earl of Antrim. When this section of the road was abandoned as a public thoroughfare, it reverted to the owners of the ground on either side, and there is no formal public right of way along it.

Whilst the culvert is of local heritage interest, it is not considered of sufficiently special architectural interest to warrant listing.