Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
House
Ballaghanery, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1920 - 1939
- Address
- House, Adjacent to 145 Ballagh Road, Newcastle, Co Down, BT33 0LA
- Townland
- Ballaghanery
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.15701, -5.88093
- Date of survey
- 17 June 1997
- HB reference
- HB16/01/042
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 1900 "Ireland" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Single storey/ three-bay timber-framed house sheeted with corrugated metal. The roof is gabled with a central brick chimney (which, according to the owner, replaced the original stovepipe) and metal rainwater goods. Facade faces south-east. The central room is entered by a glazed door at right. There is a single sliding sash window to each room. There is also a kitchen outshot of similar construction at rear.
Historical information
Former owner believes that this building. was originally a canteen at Watertown, a construction workers’ settlement which sprang up in connection with the building of the Silent Valley in the early 1920s. It was reassembled on its present site in the mid 1930s after the dam was completed.
Primary Source:
1. 145 Ballagh Rd, Glasdrumman
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Although rebuilt, this is a rare survival of the Watertown settlement and is of some historical and social interest. Unfortunately it is shortly to be demolished to make way for a replacement dwelling, but it is hoped that the Water Executive will move it to the Silent Valley for exhibition purposes.
Nearby in the register
- Ballagh Bridge (new)Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Ballagh Bridge (old),Bridgeunder 1 mi
- 36 Old RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- Milestoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.