Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Site of house
Drumgor, Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Demolished
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- Site of house, Drumgor Lane, Off Drumgor West Road, Drumgor, Craigavon, County Armagh
- Townland
- Drumgor
- Council
- Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.44418, -6.38056
- Date of survey
- 15 July 2004
- HB reference
- HB14/04/007
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 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Site, to the southeast side of Drumgor Lane, off Drumgor West Road, just southwest of Drumgor (Craigavon), formerly occupied by a single-storey vernacular house of pre 1835 construction, demolished post 1972.
In the first survey report of January 1972 reads:
‘Single-storey cottage with lower extension on left hand [southwest] side. Main roof thatched, gable ends, rendered chimneystacks. Walls rendered and whitened. Four drop-hung [i.e sash] windows [with] vertical astragals. Central sheeted door. Left hand extension has a corrugated-iron roof, gabled end and rubble walls. Front flower garden. Condition fair, roof poor. Front about 76ft.
Nothing remains of the building, with even the ground showing no obivious evidence of a structure once having stood there.
Historical information
A building matching the main section of the house recorded in 1972 is shown on the OS map of 1835, but not noted in the contemporary valuation. In the second valuation of 1861 the property is recorded as a single-storey dwelling occupied by a Jane Lynas, with the representatives of William Mather the immediate lessor, and the rateable value £1-10-0. In 1883 the appearance a ‘small new office’ is noted, which may have corresponded to the extension noted in the first survey. Between 1881 and 1918 one James McNab jnr. is listed as the occupant, with the house in the hands of his ‘representatives’ up until at least 1929.
The house was demolished some time after 1972.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI VAL/1A/2/6 OS map, County Armagh sheet 6, with valuation
references (1835-c.38)
2 PRONI VAL/2A/2/6A OS map, County Armagh sheet 6, with valuation references (1860-61)
3 PRONI VAL/2B/2/19B Second valuation, Seagoe parish (1861)
4 PRONI VAL/12B/14/7A Annual valuation revision book, Kernan ED (c.1864-78)
5 PRONI VAL/12B/14/7B Annual valuation revision book, Kernan ED (c.1879-91)
6 PRONI VAL/12B/14/7C Annual valuation revision book, Kernan ED (c.1892-1906)
7 PRONI VAL/12B/14/7D Annual valuation revision book, Kernan ED (c.1907-19)
8 PRONI VAL/12B/14/7E Annual valuation revision book, Kernan ED (c.1920-29)
Secondary sources
1 Oram, Richard, et al., ‘Historic Buildings…Craigavon’ (Belfast, 1970), part III, p.8
Other references
1 EHS HB14/04/007 First survey record card (13th January 1972)
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Site, formerly occupied by a single-storey vernacular house of pre 1835 construction, demolished post 1972.
Nearby in the register
- Site of housesDemolishedunder 1 mi
- 26 Clanrolla RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- FRIENDS BURIAL GROUNDGRAVEYARDunder 1 mi
- Site of former schoolhouse and schoolmaster residenceDemolishedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.