Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Marker stone on Hilltown Rd
Stang, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Water Works Structures
- Date of construction
- 1740 - 1759
- Address
- Marker stone on Hilltown Rd, Hilltown, Newry, Co Down, BT34 2JU
- Townland
- Stang
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.21762, -6.09416
- Date of survey
- 02 March 1999
- HB reference
- HB16/07/061
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A dressed granite post on north verge of road. Measures c.30 x 20 cm in cross section; 35cm protrudes above ground. Rounded corners to top. Side facing to south finely dressed and inscribed PBW in 5cm high capital letters.
Historical information
One of a number of stones marking the course of the Portadown and Banbridge Waterworks pipeline from Foffany Dam, opened in 1909. See also HB 16/07/048, /062, and /063 for identical stones. Shown on 1919 OS 6” map. There is a modern concrete marker post replacement immediately to its west.
Primary sources:
1. OS maps, 4th edition, 1919, Co Down sheet 48.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Primarily of local interest.
Nearby in the register
- Marker stone on Ballyweely RdWater Works Structuresunder 1 mi
- Former Kinghill National SchoolSchoolunder 1 mi
- Gatelodge and gates to Kinghill HouseGates/ Screens/ Lodgesunder 1 mi
- Disused lime kiln at KinghillRural Industryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.