Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Electricity generating house
Carrigenagh Upper, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Water Works Structures
- Date of construction
- 1920 - 1939
- Address
- Electricity generating house, Silent Valley Reservoir, Head Road, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4PU
- Townland
- Carrigenagh Upper
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.12590, -6.00138
- Date of survey
- 31 December 1997
- HB reference
- HB16/02/063
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1891 "Ireland 16" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Small single-storey building set into west-facing bank below lodges (HB16/02/018). Of rock-faced granite blocks in irregular courses over chamfered base and with moulded granite eave courses under projecting flat concrete roof. Tooled edges to quoins and ashlar granite door/ window surrounds (cills chamfered). Plain door in north wall. Three-paned windows (vertically divisions) in all but the bank wall.
Historical information
Original drawings show a pelton turbine supplied with a 3'' diameter pipe. This would have been linked to an electricity generator and possibly supplied the nearby lodges and bungalows. It was probably erected in 1923.
Primary source:
1. Mr S.J. Graham, DOE Silent Valley.
2. Original drawing in SOE Water Service, Westland House, Old Westland Road, Belfast (cat. No. 2D67).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
This structure's primary interest lies in the fact that it is one of several buildings in the Silent Valley to predate the actual reservoir, along with the Water Superintendent's house (HB16/02/017) and lodges (HB16/02/018).
Nearby in the register
- LodgesHouseunder 1 mi
- Dam excavation shaft and trench shutteringWater Works Structuresunder 1 mi
- Fountainunder 1 mi
- ‘The Restaurant’Shopunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.