6. Easky River.

The well-built bridge over the Easky River marks the boundary on the west side of the road between Spa and Lowparks Townlands. Stories are told of fishing illicitly from the bridge for salmon, which presumably used the gravel-bottomed stream bed above for spawning.

In the yard of the house just above the bridge is a fine stone-built farm building, of a design typical of the area. Animals would have been housed below, while the steps lead to an upper storey in which grain or hay might have been stored. By the entrance to the yard is a magnificent sycamore tree.

Deposits of clay laid down by the river were formerly exploited by a local brick-making industry. The first edition Ordnance Survey maps of 1845 show a "brick field" west of the bridge. The bricks produced appear to have been of a rather poor quality. Beyond the workshed, on the left of the road, a marshy area full of the plant Equisetum (horse-tail) marks an excavation from which clay has been removed.