Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Gauging Weir
Moneydorragh More Upper/ Mullartown, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Water Works Structures
- Date of listing
- 11 April 2008
- Date of construction
- 1880 - 1899
- Address
- Gauging Weir, Dunnywater, Annalong, Newry, Co Down
- Townland
- Moneydorragh More Upper/ Mullartown
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.14014, -5.93758
- Date of survey
- 07 June 1997
- HB reference
- HB16/01/053
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1866 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A dressed-granite weir across the river diverts water into a flow gauging station on the left bank. The weir is set between abutments of dressed granite blocks set in regular courses and has a metal plate across its cill. The gauging station is accessed by a flight of granite steps from the road. It is a one-storey/ one-bay structure with a flat concrete roof and cement-rendered walls embellished with stepped rusticated quoins and finely dressed door/ window surrounds.
Historical information
Constructed as a flow measuring station by the Belfast Water Commissioners during the initial phase of the Mourne Scheme to supply Belfast with water. It probably pre-dates, by several years, the construction, around 1900, of the Annalong Weir immediately downstream (HB16/01/052), which diverted water into the Annalong – Belfast conduit and which was opened in 1901. It remains in use.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
V. Authorship
X. Local Interest
Y. Social, Cultural or Economic Importance
Evaluation
Primarily of historical interest on account of its association with the Mourne Scheme, it also has group value in its association with the nearby well house (HB16/01/051) and intercepting weir (HB16/01/052).
Nearby in the register
- Intercepting WeirWater Works Structuresunder 1 mi
- Well House, Dunnywater, Head Road, Annalong, Newry, Co DownWater Works Structuresunder 1 mi
- 272 Head Rd.Houseunder 1 mi
- 264 Head RdHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.