Cavanacaw Bridge, Laurel Road, Omagh, Co Tyrone, BT78 5DH is a Grade B1 listed building in the Fermanagh and Omagh local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 9 August 2010. Bridge.
Cavanacaw Bridge, Laurel Road, Omagh, Co Tyrone, BT78 5DH
- WRENN ID
- grim-bailey-autumn
- Grade
- B1
- Local Planning Authority
- Fermanagh and Omagh
- Constituency
- West Tyrone MP: Órfhlaith Begley (SF)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Date first listed
- 9 August 2010
- Type
- Bridge
- Irish grid reference
- H 407 703
- Coordinates
- 54.57994, -7.37005
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
Cavanacaw Bridge is a single-span road bridge, built around 1850, carrying Laurel Road over Creevan Burn. The bridge is a good example of its type and indicative of infrastructure development in County Tyrone during the 19th century, possessing group value from its contribution to the surrounding area.
The bridge features squared sandstone rubble piers, abutments, and parapet, with rusticated sandstone quoins. A rockfaced sandstone string course runs to carriageway level, and squared sandstone rubble forms the parapet coping. The parapet is rounded at both the north and south ends. The main arch is semi-circular, with dressed rockfaced voussoirs squared to form spandrels, and a coursed rockfaced sandstone soffit. A smaller semi-circular flood arch is set within a square-headed recess to the north. The carriageway is approximately 5 metres wide. The bridge is situated on a rural road, south of a junction, with land to the south bounded by a timber fence.
The bridge first appeared on the 1854 Second Edition Ordnance Survey map and the road was previously shown ending on both sides of the river. The structure holds local historical interest and is also notable for its industrial archaeological significance. Cavanacaw Bridge is owned by the central government.
Local climate
Cavanacaw Bridge, Laurel Road, Omagh, Co Tyrone, BT78 5DH sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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