Bridge at Cairncastle Road, Ballygalley, Larne, Co Antrim is a listed building in the Mid and East Antrim local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Bridge at Cairncastle Road, Ballygalley, Larne, Co Antrim
- WRENN ID
- stark-hammer-foxglove
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid and East Antrim
- Constituency
- East Antrim MP: Sammy Wilson (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- D 372 077
- Coordinates
- 54.89848, -5.86195
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This is a late Georgian engineered bridge located on Cairncastle Road, Ballygalley, near Larne in County Antrim. Its construction date is thought to be between 1820 and 1839, and it first appears on the 1833 Ordnance Survey map of County Antrim. The bridge is built of basalt rubble, with tooled sandstone voussoirs forming the semi-circular arch. It carries the main road over a stream and contributes to the setting of the nearby Ballygally Castle tower house. The north face of the bridge remains largely unspoiled and forms part of the boundary to the grounds of Ballygally Castle, providing views from within those grounds. The structure has industrial archaeological interest.
Local climate
Bridge at Cairncastle Road, Ballygalley, Larne, Co Antrim sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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