Glashagh Bridge No 1, Ganvaughan Road, Castlederg, Co Tyrone, BT81 7SY is a Grade B1 listed building in the Derry City and Strabane local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 3 March 1992.

Glashagh Bridge No 1, Ganvaughan Road, Castlederg, Co Tyrone, BT81 7SY

WRENN ID
tilted-render-hawthorn
Grade
B1
Local Planning Authority
Derry City and Strabane
Constituency
West Tyrone MP: Órfhlaith Begley (SF)
Country
Northern Ireland
Date first listed
3 March 1992
Address
Glashagh Bridge No 1, Ganvaughan Road, Castlederg, Co Tyrone, BT81 7SY, Glashagh/Ganvaghan Kyle, BT81 7SY
Irish grid reference
H 230 826
Coordinates
54.69132, -7.64402
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

This is a single-span road bridge, built approximately between 1840 and 1859, carrying Ganvaughan Road over Killen Burn. The bridge is of attractive design, possessing good proportions and detailing, especially in its ornate dressings of contrasting stonework. The bridge's setting is rural and unspoiled, contributing positively to the local landscape and having an industrial archaeological interest.

The abutments, spandrels, and parapets are constructed from roughly coursed rubble, with a string-course of dressed rockfaced sandstone running to carriageway level. The parapet is finished with rounded dressed rockfaced sandstone coping. A single segmental-headed arch, featuring dressed rockfaced voussoirs, provides the bridge's span; the arch soffits are rendered with cement. The carriageway is approximately 5 metres wide. The parapet wall extends beyond the abutments to rounded ends, and a timber stile is located to the northeast. The bridge is situated on a rural road west of Castlederg village, where Killen Burn flows into the River Derg. The riverbanks are bounded by wire fencing and hedging.

An earlier, uncaptioned bridge is shown on an Ordnance Survey map from 1833 spanning Killen Burn, on the road between Castlederg and Fermanagh. The present bridge's more sophisticated stonework and ornamentation indicate a construction date in the mid-nineteenth century. The bridge was named 'Glashagh Br' on an 1853 Ordnance Survey edition, and by 1905, an additional bridge was depicted over the River Derg nearby.

Local climate

Glashagh Bridge No 1, Ganvaughan Road, Castlederg, Co Tyrone, BT81 7SY sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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