Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Byre at Dwelling
Ballaghanery Upper, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Farm Buildings
- Date of listing
- 2 February 2000
- Date of construction
- 1880 - 1899
- Address
- Byre at Dwelling, Bloody Bridge, Ballagh Road, Newcastle, Co Down
- Townland
- Ballaghanery Upper
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.17417, -5.88064
- Date of survey
- 18 June 1997
- HB reference
- HB16/01/035 B
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1866 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A two-storey/ one-bay building set into an east-facing slope so that both floors can be accessed from external ground level. The roof is pitched with natural slates and coped with cement on the left gable; there are no rainwater goods. The walls are of coursed granite rubble with coarsely squared granite corners and horizontal lintels over the openings (the latter with plug and feather marks).
The byre occupies the ground floor. Originally it was partitioned into two rooms. That to the left was the actual byre and was accessed by an opening (now doorless) at left. Carts were kept in the right-hand room which is accessed by a wide opening (never with doors). A small opening on the left gable illuminates the byre, but otherwise the ground floor walls are plain.
The first floor contains the hayloft. There is a tongue-and-groove sheeted loading door off centre on the main façade and a smaller similar door in the centre of the rear elevation. A fixed window on the left gable illuminates this room.
A small rubble stone animal pen with slated monopitched roof abuts the left gable at first floor level. It has a small entrance on its east gable and no window openings. Just to the north is the farmhouse with which it was functionally related (HB 16/01/035A).
Historical information
A building is shown on this site on the 1901-02 OS 6” map (sheet 49). As it is not on the 1859 edition, it is therefore of later 19th century date – this would accord with the prevalence of dressed stone used in the walls.
Sources:
1. PRONI -OS 6/3/49/2 (1859 OS map).
2. PRONI-OS 6/3/49/3 (1902 OS map).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
J. Setting
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Z. Rarity
Evaluation
An unaltered example of a typical two-storey Mourne byre and hayloft, this one differs from the norm in that its upper floor is accessed from the hill slope rather than an external flight of stone stairs. A replica of it has been erected at the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum, Cultra. The building also has group value when taken with the farmhouse to the north (HB 16/01/035A).
Nearby in the register
- DwellingHouseunder 1 mi
- Farmhouse a few fields to rear ofHouseunder 1 mi
- Bloody Bridge, (old)Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Bloody Bridge (new)Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.