placenamesMourne Beg
An Mhorn Bheag
The bridge on Magheranageeragh Road preserves an early nineteenth-century river crossing.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- An Mhorn Bheag · Irish · main form · validated name
- Mourne Beg · English · main form
Place & story
A bridge around 1800
The historic-building survey dates Mourne Beg Bridge to around 1800. Four shallow-curved stone arches carry a slightly humped road above the river, with pointed sandstone cutwaters between them. A smaller flood arch lies to the west. Later repairs introduced concrete blocks and cement into the stonework. [2]
Names on the maps
The survey records the bridge on the 1833 Ordnance Survey map without a name. On the 1854 edition it appears as Mourne Bridge. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- Barony
- Omagh West
- Civil parish
- Termonamongan
- Coordinates
- 54.69448, -7.64326 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 135131 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Mourne Beg. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Mourne Beg Bridge: HB10/01/006, survey 27 April 2009 · Historic Environment Division, Department for Communities
- The road across Mourne Beg Bridge, as photographed in April 2014 illustration: based on a Mourne Beg Bridge by Kenneth Allen. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.