Mullagh Old Bridge, Adjacent to 40 Main Rd, Ballymartin, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4NW is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Newry, Mourne and Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Mullagh Old Bridge, Adjacent to 40 Main Rd, Ballymartin, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4NW
- WRENN ID
- tilted-trefoil-scarlet
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Constituency
- South Down MP: Chris Hazzard (SF)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Address
- Mullagh Old Bridge, Adjacent to 40 Main Rd, Ballymartin, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4NW, Mageragh/ Ballykeel, BT34 4NW
- Irish grid reference
- J 333 159
- Coordinates
- 54.07523, -5.96425
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
The Mullagh Old Bridge is a single-span road bridge located adjacent to 40 Main Road, Ballymartin, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down. Likely dating to the 18th century, specifically between 1820 and 1839, it carried what was formerly the Newcastle-Kilkeel road over the Mullagh River. The bridge is constructed of random granite fieldstones for the parapets and spandrels, with split Silurian rubble forming the voussoirs and soffit.
The construction shows two distinct phases; the upstream span features a semicircular profile, while the downstream section, approximately twice the width of the upstream portion, has a segmental arch. Recent repairs include repointing the bridge faces with cement and capping the parapets with cement. The bridge was marked on the 1834 Ordnance Survey 6-inch map of County Down (sheet 56), but a new bridge built slightly upstream superseded it by 1859. The bridge possesses industrial archaeological interest and holds some historical interest and local value.
Local climate
Mullagh Old Bridge, Adjacent to 40 Main Rd, Ballymartin, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4NW sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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