Stranagummer Bridge, Magheralough Road, Kilskeery, Trillick, Omagh, Co Tyrone BT78 3RP

Stranagummer Bridge is a single-span road bridge built around 1850, carrying Magheralough Road over a former disused railway line north of Kilskeery. The bridge survives as an important remnant of the railway route, though its significance has diminished following the closure of the line.

The bridge is constructed of coursed rockfaced sandstone with splayed abutments and spandrels terminated by rockfaced rubble coping and a sandstone string course at carriageway level. It features a single elliptical-headed arch with dressed rockfaced voussoirs and an ashlar sandstone soffit. The carriageway is approximately 4 metres wide. Although the bridge has been partially buried beneath agricultural land on the rural road, the stonework detailing and dressings have been retained and the structure remains unaltered.

The bridge first appears on the Second Edition Ordnance Survey map of 1852, when the line was captioned as the Londonderry & Enniskillen Railway. By the Third Edition map of 1905–6, it had become the Great Northern Railway (Ireland). The Londonderry & Enniskillen Railway Company was incorporated in 1845 and authorised to construct a single-track line extending southwards from Londonderry. Construction began shortly afterwards, reaching Strabane by April 1847. Although this first section was not commercially successful due to its brevity, storm damage, and competition from the Strabane Canal and Foyle Navigation, the railway flourished once extended to Omagh (1852), Fintona (1853), and Enniskillen (1854), bringing significant commercial advantages to the towns it served and the surrounding agricultural lands. The Londonderry & Enniskillen Railway was leased to the Dundalk & Enniskillen Railway Company in 1860, subsequently becoming the Irish North Western Railway Company. This was absorbed by the Northern Railway Company on 1 January 1876 and merged with the Ulster Railway Company on 1 April 1876 to form the Great Northern Railway Company (Ireland). Following the Second World War, the railways faced increasing competition from road transport. The Great Northern Railway ceased to exist as an independent company in 1953, when the entire system was acquired jointly by the Governments of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. In 1958, the portion of the former Great Northern system within Northern Ireland passed under the control of the Ulster Transport Authority, after which many lines deemed unremunerative were closed. Stranagummer Bridge is one of a series of bridges that remain from this railway route, though other examples survive in better condition. It is of industrial archaeological interest.