Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Ice House on Dunmaul Promontory Fort,
Galboly Lower, Mid and East Antrim, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Ice House
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- Ice House on Dunmaul Promontory Fort,, St MacNissi’s College,, 25 Tower Road,, Carnlough,, Ballymena, Co Antrim
- Townland
- Galboly Lower
- Council
- Mid and East Antrim
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 55.04618, -5.96612
- Date of survey
- 23 November 2000
- HB reference
- HB06/01/040
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1831 "Scotland southern." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A domestic ice house built of rubble stone and brick on a rectangular plan, with a vaulted roof and one small rectangular opening.
Entrance faces approximately north-east.
It is excavated into the side of a mound on the north side of an Iron Age promontory fort, with the top mostly grassed over.
The interior is brick lined with a steep drop into the chamber beyond the entrance.
SETTING: The structure stands in a very rural and scenic area, the promontory fort on which it is built occupying a headland or cliff overlooking the Antrim Coast Road. It stands within the grounds of a school adjacent to the playing fields.
Historical information
Built in 1849 to the design of Charles Campbell, architect of Newtownards, for Frances Anne Vane, Marchioness of Londonderry to serve her residence, Garron Tower, which was being built at the same time, also to Campbell’s designs.
References – Secondary Sources
1. P. Magill, Garron Tower (Belfast, 1990), p 44.
2. F. Hamond, Antrim Coast and Glens: Industrial Heritage (HMSO, Belfast, 1991), p 86 (item no. 48).
3. SMR no. ANT 20:3.
4. IHR 7625.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
This is an example of an ice house in an unusual location and built in association with an important ‘castle-style’ house, but not of special interest in regard to architectural treatment or construction.
Nearby in the register
- Telephone Kiosk,Telephone kioskunder 1 mi
- Former Telephone Exchange,Storeunder 1 mi
- 91 Garron Road,House - Terraceunder 1 mi
- 89 Garron Road,House - Terraceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.