Ballykeel Bridge Mill Road Ballykeel Mullaghbawn Co. Armagh BT35 9UA

Ballykeel Bridge (IHR00582) is a stone-built road bridge constructed c.1800, carrying the Mill Road over a tributary of the Forkhill River, located to immediate N of Ballykeel Mill (HB16/19/022), approximately 2 miles N of Mullaghbawn, Co Armagh. The bridge is a hump-backed type and is constructed of roughly dressed rubblestone in uneven courses, but with carefully shaped voussoirs. Large, individual cut stones for coping to each parapet. The two arches are semi-circular in section and are asymmetric with one arch much larger than the other. Stone cutwaters to each face located between the arches. That on the E side has concrete to top. The soffit of each arch has been sprayed with gunnite or similar material. Materials: Unevenly coursed rubblestone Setting: Ballykeel Bridge is a rural, vernacular stone-built road bridge carrying the Mill Road over a tributary of the Forkhill River, located to immediate N of Ballykeel Mill (HB16/19/022), approximately 2 miles N of Mullaghbawn, Co Armagh.