Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Milepost
Munie south, Mid and East Antrim, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Milestone
- Date of listing
- 5 October 2005
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- Milepost, Munie Road, Munie south, Glenarm, Ballymena, Co Antrim
- Townland
- Munie south
- Council
- Mid and East Antrim
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.93107, -5.99257
- Date of survey
- 02 April 2001
- HB reference
- HB06/02/100
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 1817 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Cast iron triangular milepost of perhaps c.1830s set on the N side of Munie Road, roughly 3¼ miles SW of Glenarm.
The faces of the milepost are painted in the usual manner, with black legend against a white background. The W face reads ‘Glenarm 2½ [Irish] miles’and the E face ‘Ballymena 14’. The top face has broken off.
Historical information
This milepost is of the same style as those erected along the near by Antrim Coast Road (many of which still survive). As the Coast Road was laid out between 1832 and 1842 it is possible that these date from this time, though it has to be said that the road on which this particular example stands predates 1832 and similar mileposts are found elsewhere in the county, some of them well away from the Coast Road. However the typeface used on the post is not inconsistent with an 1830s date.
References- Secondary sources
1 W.A. McCutcheon, ‘The industrial archaeology of Northern Ireland’ (Belfast HMSO 1980), pp.29-30, plate 4
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
C. Ornamentation
J. Setting
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Z. Rarity
Evaluation
Cast iron triangular milepost of perhaps c.1830s. Rarity value makes it worthy of protection.
Nearby in the register
- Cottage in Glenarm Castle Estate ('Lord Antrim's Cottage')House1 mi
- Mill BridgeBridge1 mi
- Graveyard off Munie RoadGraveyard1 mi
- Former RectoryHouse1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.