Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Navigation Mark
Moneydorragh More, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Light House/ Navigation Mark
- Date of listing
- 14 August 1981
- Date of construction
- 1800 - 1819
- Address
- Navigation Mark, In rear garden of 12 The Square, Annalong, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4TS
- Townland
- Moneydorragh More
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.10827, -5.89692
- Date of survey
- 22 May 1997
- HB reference
- HB16/01/012
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A whitewashed rubble masonry post about 3.0 - 3.7m high of circular cross section, tapering to an oversailing conical top surmounted by a rounded boulder finial. A television aerial is now affixed to it.
Historical information
Although not explicitly marked on Alexander Nimmo’s 1821 chart of Annalong Harbour, a line is shown to this location from the entrance channel to the harbour; it is captioned ‘landing mark SE ¾ by compass’. It very probably existed at this time, although the possibility cannot be excluded that the Board of Works erected it when carrying out harbour improvements in the 1840s.
Primary Source:
1. A. Nimmo, ‘Report on the fishing stations on the north coast of Ireland’, in Fourth report of the Commissioners of Irish Fisheries, (1822). This is reproduced in M. McCaughan, ‘Nineteenth century accounts of maritime activity at Annalong’, in Field excursions in Ulster, 3: the Annalong district of the Mournes, County Down (Belfast 1985), pp. 24-27.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
J. Setting
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Y. Social, Cultural or Economic Importance
Z. Rarity
Evaluation
An unusual structure significant in the history of local navigation and the development of the harbour.
Nearby in the register
- Annalong Corn MillMillunder 1 mi
- The HarbourHarbour/ Pierunder 1 mi
- 25 Glassdrumman RoadOfficeunder 1 mi
- Annalong Presbyterian ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.