Dudgeon Bridge, Dunwish Road, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, BT78 5PH

The Dudgeon Bridge is a three-span road bridge, built around 1780, that carries Dunwish Road over Fairywater. While it has a hump-back form reminiscent of 17th-century packhorse bridges, its multi-span construction indicates a later date. The parapet wall is noticeably pointed at its center. The bridge's abutments, spandrels, and parapets are built of random rubble, with dressed rockfaced sandstone coping along the parapets. It features three segmental-headed arches, the central one being larger, with rubble voussoirs; V-shaped cutwaters are present at the piers over a rendered plinth. The arch soffits are cement rendered, and the carriageway is approximately 4 meters wide. The parapet wall continues west, acting as a boundary wall for adjacent agricultural land, and eastwards to a road junction.

The bridge was depicted on the 1833 First Edition Ordnance Survey map, labelled 'Dudgeon Bridge'. The large central arch gives the bridge a hump-back shape characteristic of earlier packhorse bridges, but the multi-span design and the presence of a parapet wall – absent in such earlier structures – confirm its late 18th-century date. The bridge retains considerable merit and is a good example of 18th-century engineering, demonstrating an unusual combination of features. It is located on a rural road north of Omagh, within a largely agricultural setting, with a farm complex to the east.