Road/Rail Bridge, Craigmore Road, Newry, Co Down

This bridge carries a single-track road on a single masonry span over a cutting created by the former double-track Goraghwood – Newry railway. The bridge comprises a single semi-elliptical skew span and is of granite throughout. The abutments are of large rock-faced blocks laid in regular courses. The spandrels, parapets and wing walls are of squared rubble; the spandrels are regularly coursed, the parapets are laid randomly, and the wing walls are also random, but brought to courses. The wing walls are battered and have rusticated quoins. Embellishment takes the form of a finely-dressed chamfered string course through the arch at spring level (returning around the quoins), rusticated quoins and voussoirs (the latter are stepped into the spandrel courses), and a finely-dressed projecting string course across each face above the arch crown. The arch soffit comprises finely dressed granite blocks set on the skew. The north parapet is coped with finely-dressed chamfered blocks. The coping on the south wall has been replaced with concrete. The carriageway has a slightly humped back and the road makes a dogleg on both approaches. There is a narrow footpath along the south parapet. A cast-iron pipe is carried across the outside face of the north parapet. It is supported over the crown of the arch by a large concrete block built into the face of the spandrel.