Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
48 Gransha Road
Tullyquilly, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- 48 Gransha Road, Tullyquilly, Rathfriland, Co. Down, BT34 5BU
- Townland
- Tullyquilly
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.24479, -6.19570
- Date of survey
- 29 November 2004
- HB reference
- HB16/08/060
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A single storey, three-bay, direct entry house with thatch under corrugated asbestos sheeting. The wall construction is of granite rubble with remains of harling. A windbreak porch with a timber ledged door now flush on the exterior is flanked to the right (south-east) by one and to the left by two (north-west) windowless openings. As far as may be seen there are no sills. There are no openings in the rear walls or in the gables.
The house, that faces south-west, forms part of a small settlement accessed by means of a winding lane that travels in a north-easterly direction from Gransha Road about one and a half miles from Rathfriland in the direction of Loughbrickland.
The site originally contained five buildings two of which remain together with the remains of a third building now represented only by a footprint.
The complex is terminated at the south-west end by a modern field gate with stone walling either side and a two-unit outhouse. The remainder of the site has been landscaped to a high standard.
Historical information
The layouts shown on the OS maps of 1833 and 1860 involve a total of five buildings, two of which remain including the subject of this survey. The small outbuilding that occupies the south-west corner of the farmyard is post-1860
References – Primary Sources
1. OS map, 1st edition 1833, Co. Down sheet 41
2. OS map, 1st revision 1860, Co. Down sheet 41
Secondary Sources
An interview with the owner on 29 November 2004 included the information that a date of 1758 is scratched into the internal plaster of the other remaining house on the site.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
B. Proportion
D. Plan Form
F. Structural System
J. Setting
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Y. Social, Cultural or Economic Importance
Z. Rarity
Evaluation
A single storey, three bay, direct entry house with thatch under corrugated asbestos. The layout is unaltered and the roof structure is intact.
Nearby in the register
- StreamvilleHouseunder 1 mi
- 61 Loughbrickland RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- McGinns CrossNo type recordedunder 1 mi
- 40 Loughbrickland RoadHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.