New Bridge, Cloghog Road / Lower Grange Road, Cookstown, Co Londonderry

This is a four-arch squared sandstone humpbacked road bridge over the Ballinderry River, built c.1825. It has squared and snecked rubble sandstone walls with cut-stone coping. The arches are round-headed with cut-stone voussoirs. The central arch is larger than the flanking arches. There is a central keystone to the central arch and a cut stone date stone over, with a projecting oval centre. The datestone is inscribed ‘ERECTED BY WILLIAM STEWART ESQ. M.P. AD 1825’. The stone to the east side is much eroded. To the west side of the bridge, there are two small curved cut-waters located between the arches. The road bridge is approximately 6 metres in width. To the north side there is one further small overflow archway (now much overgrown); this may have been incorporated to relieve high flood waters.