Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Marker Post
Kilfeaghan, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Water Works Structures
- Date of construction
- 1900 - 1919
- Address
- Marker Post, Near 34 Kilfeaghan Road, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 3AW
- Townland
- Kilfeaghan
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.07978, -6.12264
- Date of survey
- 09 July 1998
- HB reference
- HB16/05/035
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
This stone marks where a buried water main to Warrenpoint crosses under the road from its abstraction point higher up on Cassy Water.
It is of finely-dressed granite and is embedded in a random rubble wall on west side of the road. It stands 94cm high, has a semicircular top and is of rectangular cross section, 30cm wide by 22cm deep. Neatly carved into its road face are the capital letters W.W.W. [= Warrenpoint Water Works]. To its immediate left is an unrelated water trough fed by a pipe from the slope above.
The take-off, at the junction of the Cassy and Cross Waters (grid J 228 183), comprises a small vertical concrete weir across the stream, with opening on right bank into a small smooth cement rendered building with semicircular roof.
Historical information
In 1910, Warrenpoint Urban Council obtained Parliamentary approval for a new water scheme. This was completed in 1912 at a cost of £11,000. The Valuation Revision maps of 1895-1914 shows the line of the pipe. No building is shown at the abstraction point on the 1919 OS 6” map, suggesting that there was originally only a weir across the river at this point.
Primary Sources:
1. PRONI – VAL 12D/3/55.
2. Ulster Provincial Directory, 1910 and 1912.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Very modest in scale and of local interest only. This type of marker is relatively scarce in a Northern Ireland context.
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