Newmill Bridge, Clarehill Road, Moira, Craigavon, Co Armagh

A triple-span masonry arch bridge which carries a secondary road between Moira and Dromore over the River Lagan. The bridge is of random rubble construction. The stonework is mostly of rounded field stones but part of the left-bank arch spandrel and parapet are of quarried rubble (indicating a later rebuild). The arches are of irregular segmental profile, the middle one being the widest. All have split rubble masonry voussoirs and their soffits are rendered with cement (through which random rubble is visible in places). Triangular mass concrete cutwaters rise to just above arch spring level on both faces; they are capped with concrete rising to crown level. The parapets are coped with roughly squared granite blocks which contrast with the black stonework of the rest of the bridge. Both faces are identical except for the addition of a lagged water pipe on the downstream (NE) face which is carried across just above crown level. The carriageway comprises two lanes and has a slight hump. The downstream left-bank wall of the approach road from Moira is buttressed with random rubble. The bridge may have been repointed with cement in 1983, this being the date inscribed on the upstream face of the left-bank arch.