Former railway bridge, Abbeyview Road, Clontaghnaglar, Crossgar, Downpatrick, 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.
Former railway bridge, Abbeyview Road, Clontaghnaglar, Crossgar, Downpatrick, Co Down
- WRENN ID
- idle-copper-hyssop
- 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 426 536
- Coordinates
- 54.41163, -5.80398
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This is a single-span road bridge, built between 1840 and 1859, originally to carry the Abbeyview Road over a section of the former Belfast & County Down Railway line to Ballynahinch. The railway line was closed in 1950. The bridge is located along the Abbeyview Road, approximately two miles northwest of Crossgar, in the townland of Clontaghnaglar.
The bridge is primarily constructed from squared fieldstone, with sandstone used for the parapet coping, the elliptical arch's voussoirs, and as a string course at road level. A second string course may be present at arch springing level, but this is partially obscured by vegetation. It was likely designed by Sir John MacNeill, chief engineer of the Belfast & County Down Railway Company, and built by Patrick Moore. Although the bridge is considered to have industrial archaeological interest, it is not considered to be of special architectural or historic interest and was delisted on 27 November 1997.
Local climate
Former railway bridge, Abbeyview Road, Clontaghnaglar, Crossgar, Downpatrick, 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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