Aghadavoyle Bridge, Station Road, Jonesborough, Newry, Co Armagh, BT35 8JH is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Newry, Mourne and Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Aghadavoyle Bridge, Station Road, Jonesborough, Newry, Co Armagh, BT35 8JH
- WRENN ID
- waning-forge-merlin
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Constituency
- Newry and Armagh MP: Dáire Hughes (SF)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Address
- Aghadavoyle Bridge, Station Road, Jonesborough, Newry, Co Armagh, BT35 8JH, Foughill Etra; Aghadavoyle, BT35 8JH
- Irish grid reference
- J 055 188
- Coordinates
- 54.10832, -6.38634
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
A bridge dating from around 1850, it possesses architectural interest and is historically associated with Sir John Macneill and William Dargan, considered the "father" of Irish railways. The bridge is part of a group of rail-related structures and is linked to the nearby railway station (HB16/15/022), whose platforms extend under the bridge's arch.
The bridge, number 169, carries a single lane road over the double-track Dublin-Belfast railway line, located west of the Dundalk Road. It features a single, semi-elliptical span constructed from coarsely-dressed and irregularly laid granodiorite blocks. The abutments have tooled edges and rusticated voussoirs, with a finely dressed and chamfered string course running through the arch at spring level and just above the crown, as well as similarly detailed, slightly advanced parapet copings. Shallow buttresses are present on the approach walls, also with tooled edges. The splayed wing walls are coped and terminate with capped squared piers. The road surface is slightly humped where it crosses the bridge and bends sharply southwest.
The bridge was constructed around 1850 by the Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway Company, based on designs by their chief engineer, Sir John Macneill, with William Dargan overseeing construction. This section of the railway line, between Killeen and Dundalk, opened in 1850, and, with the subsequent completion of the Craigmore Viaduct in 1852, the entire line between Dublin and Belfast became fully operational.
Local climate
Aghadavoyle Bridge, Station Road, Jonesborough, Newry, Co Armagh, BT35 8JH receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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