Colligan Bridge, Adjacent to 69 Head Rd, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4HX is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Newry, Mourne and Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Colligan Bridge, Adjacent to 69 Head Rd, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4HX
- WRENN ID
- final-cellar-gilt
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Constituency
- South Down MP: Chris Hazzard (SF)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Address
- Colligan Bridge, Adjacent to 69 Head Rd, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4HX, BT34 4HX
- Irish grid reference
- J 309 204
- Coordinates
- 54.11606, -5.99865
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
The Colligan Bridge is a rural bridge situated adjacent to 69 Head Road, Kilkeel, Newry, County Down. Constructed between 1800 and 1819, it is a segmental twin arched structure carrying the Head Road over the Kilkeel River. The bridge is built of squared granite rubble in regular courses, with roughly dressed voussoirs. Angled cutwaters rise to just above the arch spring level on both sides, and it features rusticated copings to strap pointed parapets. Traces of concrete shuttering on the underside of the arches indicate later strengthening work. An unnamed bridge appears at this location on an 1834 Ordnance Survey map (Down sheet 53), and it is identified as Colligan Bridge from 1859 onwards. The style of dressed coursed masonry suggests a construction date in the early 19th century. While lacking architectural or historic merit justifying formal listing, it is considered to possess industrial archaeological interest.
Local climate
Colligan Bridge, Adjacent to 69 Head Rd, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4HX 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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