2019

J3269 : Shaw's Bridge, Belfast (June 2019)

taken 6 years ago, 3 km from Drumbeg, Co Down, Northern Ireland

Shaw's Bridge, Belfast (June 2019)
Shaw's Bridge, Belfast (June 2019)
June 2019 has, mainly, been a wet month with some spells of heavy rain. The view upstream - J3269 : The River Lagan, Shaw's Bridge, Belfast - July 2018(2) shows the bridge and River Lagan during the 2018 drought.
The bridge is thought to have been named after a Cromwellian soldier. “This bridge is named after a Mr Shaw, a captain in Cromwell’s Army who is said to have built a timber bridge across the river hereabouts around 1650. It is captioned as “Shawe’s Bridge” on William Petty’s c.1654 baronial map Belfast” - register of listed buildings.
Shaw's Bridge, Belfast


Some photographs of and from Shaw’s Bridge, Belfast.
There are two bridges, both called “Shaw’s Bridge” across the River Lagan on the Malone Road/Milltown Road. The first was built in about 1707 and was in use as a road bridge until 1977 when replaced, for motor vehicles, by a concrete structure of four lanes forming part of the Belfast outer ring road. The old bridge remains but restricted to pedestrians and bicycles.


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Geographical Context: Rivers, Streams, Drainage Roads, Road transport Air, Sky, Weather Place: Belfast Primary Subject: Bridge other tags: Bridge Shaws Bridge (Belfast) River River Lagan Place Name Explained Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · River Lagan in Belfast [36] · Belfast April 2018 [9] · View Upstream [6] · June 2019 [4] ·
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J3269, 251 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Albert Bridge   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Monday, 24 June, 2019   (more nearby)
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Monday, 24 June, 2019
Subject Location
Irish: geotagged! J 325 690 [100m precision]
WGS84: 54:33.1294N 5:57.1752W
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Irish: geotagged! J 324 690
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Southeast (about 135 degrees)
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