Croan Bridge, Cabragh Road, Rathfriland, Newry, Co Down, BT34 2HX is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Newry, Mourne and Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Croan Bridge, Cabragh Road, Rathfriland, Newry, Co Down, BT34 2HX
- WRENN ID
- keen-finial-linden
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Constituency
- South Down MP: Chris Hazzard (SF)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Address
- Croan Bridge, Cabragh Road, Rathfriland, Newry, Co Down, BT34 2HX, Croan/ Finnard, BT34 2HX
- Irish grid reference
- J 141 311
- Coordinates
- 54.21612, -6.25045
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This is a bridge located on the Cabragh Road, near Rathfriland, Newry, County Down. Likely built between 1780 and 1799, it is cited on the 1834 Ordnance Survey map as ‘Croan Bridge’. The bridge consists of two slightly skewed semicircular arches that carry a minor road over the Clanrye River, which appears here as a small stream. It is constructed of random rubble with finely dressed granite voussoirs, each face featuring a slightly projecting keystone. Small angled squared rubble cutwaters rise to arch spring level on each face. The parapets are coped with squared rubble. Walls to the north side continue as field boundaries, with the road positioned at a higher level. A small pipe crosses the east face. Two small, flat-headed culverts through the south approach previously served as floodwater channels but are now heavily silted. The bridge exhibits industrial archaeological interest.
Local climate
Croan Bridge, Cabragh Road, Rathfriland, Newry, Co Down, BT34 2HX receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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