Bridge, Leckpatrick Road, Sentry Hill, Ballymagorry, Strabane, Co Tyrone

A former road over rail bridge dating from around 1890, carrying the Leckpatrick Road on an east-west axis over the now dismantled Strabane to Londonderry railway line. The bridge is a triple-span structure of stone masonry construction, featuring three segmental-headed arches with cement voussoirs and tooled stone springer stones set on rock-faced tooled stone piers. The arches have cement soffits with rubble stone walling rising above them to parapet level. A rough-hewn stone parapet runs along the top with cement pointing throughout. The hump-backed twin carriageway has a bitumac finish and terminates with piers at either end. The walling is rubblestone with cement rendered voussoirs.

The bridge first appears on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of 1905, carrying a road over the Donegal Railway. By the fourth edition map of 1951, the railway was captioned as the U.T.A. Railway. The Donegal Railway Company built a line from Stranorlar to Strabane in 1863, extended to Lough Eske in 1882 and to Donegal Town in 1889. In 1894 the company converted the Stranorlar to Strabane section to narrow gauge. The Strabane to Londonderry section was completed in August 1900. In 1906 the Donegal Railway Company's operations passed under joint control of the Great Northern Railway and the Midland Railway Company of England, managed by the County Donegal Railways Joint Committee. The Strabane to Londonderry section became the exclusive property of the Midland Railway (Northern Counties Committee), though it was worked by the County Donegal Railways Joint Committee. The Ulster Transport Authority, established in 1948, took responsibility for all public rail transport in the province by 1958. The Strabane to Derry section of the line closed around 1955.

Despite recent repairs, the bridge retains good stone masonry and the overall impression of a late nineteenth-century structure remains intact, forming a pleasant feature in the local rural landscape. However, the use of cementitious materials in recent repairs to the voussoirs in particular has degraded the bridge's architectural interest.