Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Milestone
Glasdrumman, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Milestone
- Date of construction
- 1780 - 1799
- Address
- Milestone, Outside 408 Glasdrumman Road, Annalong, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4QW
- Townland
- Glasdrumman
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.14959, -5.88406
- Date of survey
- 17 June 1997
- HB reference
- HB16/01/047
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1769 · Nieuwe kaart van Ierland / I. Condet sculp. (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1808 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Located on the west side of the Newcastle - Kilkeel road outside the entrance to no 408 Glasdrumman Rd. A dressed granite post approximately 23cm square and standing 60cm above the ground with a pyramidal top. It bears the inscription '21' incised some 9cm high on the three faces visible from the road. This number denotes the distance, in Irish miles, from Newry. The stone has been moved slightly from its original position to facilitate road widening.
Historical information
This mile marker first appears on the 1901 OS 6" map. Given that the distance is in Irish, rather than Imperial, measure it was almost certainly extant at the time of the 1859 map, but simply not marked. It probably dates from the late 1700s or early 1800s, if not before (it is uncertain whether the mile intervals shown along this road on A. Taylor and G. Skinner's ‘Maps of the roads of Ireland’, published in 1777 correspond with actual markers).
Source:
1. PRONI – OS 6/3/53/2 (1859 OS map).
2. PRONI- OS 6/3/53/3 (1901 OS map).
3. J & N Newell, 'Mourne milestones', in 12 Miles of Mourne, vol.5 (Kilkeel 1992), pp.58-60.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
There were 24 milestones between Newry and Newcastle, of which 17 still survive. As a group they are very probably now a unique survival in the province.
Nearby in the register
- 36 Old RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- 22 Old RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- 20 Old RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- Ballagh Bridge (old),Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.