Bridge, School Road, Claragh, near Clough, Downpatrick, County Down is a Grade B2 listed building in the Newry, Mourne and Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 6 February 2006.
Bridge, School Road, Claragh, near Clough, Downpatrick, County Down
- WRENN ID
- north-cobalt-russet
- Grade
- B2
- Local Planning Authority
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Constituency
- South Down MP: Chris Hazzard (SF)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Date first listed
- 6 February 2006
- Irish grid reference
- J 373 405
- Coordinates
- 54.29516, -5.89063
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This is a good example of a rubble-built, single-span hump-backed bridge, likely constructed before 1834. The bridge carries School Road over the Moneycarragh River, approximately 2.5 miles west of the village of Clough in County Down. It crosses the river at a right angle. The structure is built from rubble fieldstone and features a pronounced hump and a roughly elliptical arch. The parapets are topped with concrete copings.
The simple design, particularly the hump-backed form and right-angle river crossing, suggests construction likely before 1830 and may correspond to the Ordnance Survey map of 1834. Supporting map evidence is found in PRONI OS/6/3/36/1 (c.1834), OS/6/3/36/2 (c.1858), and OS/6/3/36/3 (c.1901). The bridge’s construction date is estimated to be between 1820 and 1839. It holds industrial archaeological interest and demonstrates local historical significance.
Local climate
Bridge, School Road, Claragh, near Clough, Downpatrick, County Down sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% 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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