Bridge at Gorticrum Road, Artigarvan, Strabane, Co Tyrone BT82

A late 19th C single-arch concrete road bridge over the Glenmornan River, 3km ESE of Artigarvan. It is surrounded by fields to all sides and lies 130m south of St Joseph's Church (HB10/11/007). This bridge is of mass concrete throughout. The abutments and soffit of its semicircular orthogonal arch (3.8m span) exhibit the marks of the timber shuttering (falsework) used in their construction. The spandrels on both elevations are smooth cement rendered. The concrete parapets (4.9m in-in) have a high admixture of random rubble and are chamfered along their tops. The slightly splayed approach walls in-step from base to top (45cm thick) on their outside faces and have no terminal piers. The road hereabouts is embanked above the floodplain. There are no traces of the original ford to the west, or of the former road line on the north side of the river.