Railway Bridge, Cranny, Omagh, Co.Tyrone

A three-span former railway-over-river bridge (now disused), built c.1850 and aligned north-south formerly carrying the Portadown, Dungannon & Omagh Railway over the Drumragh River. Abutments, spandrels and parapets are squared uncoursed rock-faced basalt; there are slightly projecting battered buttresses at either end. The parapet coping is roughly dressed limestone (largely intact with some loose stones). Carried on three equally sized round-headed arches with rock-faced voussoirs and shallow semi-circular upstream and downstream cutwaters; tooled stone soffits. Setting:- The railbed is raised on steep embankments beside the Drumragh River. Raking perpendicular retaining walls drop to river level at either end of the bridge. No sign of the track remains and the bridge now carries a disused grass track leading to open farmland. Walls:- Basalt