Stone Bridge, Gortnagarn Road, Omagh, Co Tyrone, BT78 5NW

Stone Bridge is a six-span road bridge built around 1800, carrying Gortnagarn Road over the Strule River near Omagh. It remains an impressive structure, notable for its substantial size, scale, long rhythm, and visual continuity along the river.

The bridge is constructed of random rubble with rubble abutments and spandrels. Round-headed arches are formed with rubble voussoirs, and V-shaped cutwaters deflect the water flow. The soffits are cement rendered. The original rubble parapet with rubble coping has been substantially replaced with concrete blocks topped by segmental concrete coping, resulting in a loss of character, though the remainder of the structure remains intact.

The carriageway is approximately 6 metres wide. Extending northward into agricultural land, the bridge is lengthened by a further four flood arches of diminishing size. Rubble walling extends east and west to the field boundaries. To the north-west, the rubble wall has replacement concrete coping and contains a single entrance gate serving a private garden. To the north-east, the wall retains partial rubble coping with areas of segmental sandstone coping and provides access to the river bank.

Historical records indicate the bridge appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1833, and it is likely the 'stone bridge' over the Strule referred to in the Ordnance Survey Memoirs of around 1834. It is shown captioned as 'Stone Bridge' on the revised Ordnance Survey map of 1854 and all subsequent maps, and is documented in various newspaper reports from at least the 1880s onwards, though it was also referred to as 'Cappaigh Bridge' by Thomas Mellon in 1882. The exact date of construction is not certain, though documentary evidence suggests the period 1800–1819.