Killerduff Bridge

The saved account records: Two-arch road bridge over river, dated 184

The saved account records: Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked limestone walls centred on tooled limestone ashlar rounded cutwater to pier having domed capping with cut-limestone stringcourses supporting parapets having lichen-covered hammered limestone rounded coping centred on benchmark-inscribed date stone ("184-").

The saved account records: Pair of segmental arches with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs.

The saved account records: Sited spanning Bellanaminnaun River with unkempt banks to river.

Killerduff Bridge matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A bridge representing an integral component of the mid nineteenth-century civil engineering heritage of the rural environs of Ballycastle with the architectural value of the composition, one evoking favourable comparisons with the contemporary New Bridge (184-) nearby (see 31300705), confirmed not only by the "sparrow pecked" sheer limestone dressings demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also by the elegant "sweep" of the arches making a pleasing visual statement at a crossing over the Bellanaminnaun River: meanwhile, a benchmark remains of additional interest for the connections with cartography and the… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.