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

An 18th C arched masonry culvert carrying the former Cushendun - Ballyvoy road over a stream 600m east of Lough Bridge on what is now the main Cushendun - Ballycastle road. It is surrounded to all sides by remote moorland. The culvert is constructed of random rubble fieldstones and comprises a shallow segment arch of c.1.85m span. The c.4m wide road is raised hereabouts as it crosses the dip created by the stream. The embankment is pitched on both sides with rubble masonry and also buttressed along its W face. Much of this facing has collapsed on both sites, as has approximately half the arch at its upstream (east) end. There is no evidence of any parapets. The section of road on which this culvert is situated runs for 4.8km as a single-lane greenway partly surfaced with compacted gravel in an almost dead straight line from the zig-zags near Cushendun to just south of Flughery Bridge. This is the only bridge along this stretch, the other streams being piped across it in small stone drains. At Flughery Bridge, the track turns north-west and continues as a tarmaced road for 6.4km to Ballyvoy and then onwards along the present main road to Ballycastle.