Dromore Crossing, Dromore Road, Omagh, Co Tyrone, BT78 1QZ is a listed building in the Fermanagh and Omagh local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Dromore Crossing, Dromore Road, Omagh, Co Tyrone, BT78 1QZ
- WRENN ID
- roaming-lead-equinox
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Fermanagh and Omagh
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
Dromore Crossing is a single-span road bridge built around 1850, carrying Dromore Road over a now-disused railway line near Omagh, County Tyrone.
The bridge is constructed of squared-and-snecked rockfaced basalt with splayed abutments and parapet. A rockfaced sandstone string course runs to carriageway level, and the parapet is topped with squared sandstone rockfaced coping. The single segmental-headed arch features a plain sandstone springing course and rusticated ashlar voussoirs. The arch soffit is vaulted in red brick, with rockfaced stone below the springing course. To the north-east and south-west, curved retaining walls terminate in square pillars. The carriageway is approximately 6 metres wide.
The bridge was built during a period of railway expansion in the region. It first appears on the second edition Ordnance Survey map of 1854. The railway it crosses originally formed part of the Londonderry & Enniskillen Railway, incorporated in 1845. This line reached Omagh in 1852 and Enniskillen by 1854, opening important commercial routes for the agricultural and market towns of the region. The company was subsequently leased to the Dundalk & Enniskillen Railway Company in 1860, then absorbed into the Irish North Western Railway, and finally merged in 1876 to form the Great Northern Railway Company (Ireland). The railway line closed during the mid-twentieth century as road transport competition increased.
The bridge's condition has been significantly compromised by modern development. A housing development constructed to the north-west has raised ground levels, completely obscuring the north-west façade. The north-west parapet has been removed. The bridge remains in use as a road structure, though substantially altered from its original form.
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