Former railway bridge, Cahard Road, Ballydyan, Ballynahinch, Co Down

Single span, largely rubble built, skewed road bridge of 1857-58 built to carry the Cahard Road over a stretch of the former Belfast & County Down Railway line. The line was removed in 1950. The bridge is located along Cahard Road, just under 3 miles NE of Ballynahinch. The bridge is skewed and is mainly constructed in squared fieldstone, with sandstone coping to the parapets, brick voussoirs to the elliptical arch, a sandstone string course at road level and brick quoins to the parapets. Because of the skew, the underside of the arch is ‘stepped’ (or staggered). These ‘stepped’ arches also have brick voussoirs and a sandstone string course to each side. The parapet coping is now partly rendered and a section of it (to the W side) has been replaced with concrete.