Hagan's Bridge, Rocks Chapel Road, Lisnamore, Crossgar, Co Down is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Newry, Mourne and Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 27 May 1980.
Hagan's Bridge, Rocks Chapel Road, Lisnamore, Crossgar, Co Down
- WRENN ID
- patient-steel-heath
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Constituency
- Strangford MP: Jim Shannon (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1980
- Irish grid reference
- J 454 502
- Coordinates
- 54.38003, -5.76247
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This is a single-span road bridge, dating from approximately 1856, designed by Sir John MacNeill and built to carry the Rocks Chapel Road over a section of the Belfast & County Down Railway line between Crossgar and Downpatrick. The railway line closed in 1950.
The bridge is situated on the Rocks Chapel Road, approximately one mile south of Crossgar. It features a single elliptical arch constructed of coursed, rock-faced fieldstone, with dressed sandstone voussoirs forming the arch itself. A string course runs at arch springing level and continues underneath the bridge. The northern face is partially obscured by plant growth, while the southern face is completely concealed. The south end of the arch has been largely blocked with breeze blocks, and the underside of the bridge is now informally used as a cattle shed. The road surface on the bridge is tarmacked. The bridge has coping along its parapets, though the southern parapet is heavily overgrown with plants.
The bridge was constructed around 1856 to accommodate the Rocks Chapel Road as the Belfast & County Down Railway was built between Crossgar and Downpatrick. Sir John MacNeill, the BCDR's chief engineer, designed the bridge, and Patrick Moore, his principal contractor, built it. The structure has industrial archaeological interest.
Local climate
Hagan's Bridge, Rocks Chapel Road, Lisnamore, Crossgar, Co Down receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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