Site of former Shambles

Ringmackilroy, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland

The record

Designation: Record only (not listed)
Grade: Record Only
Type: Demolished
Date of construction: 1820 - 1839
Address: Site of former Shambles, Corner of East Street - Kings Lane, Warrenpoint, Newry, Co Down, BT34 3JE
Townland: Ringmackilroy
Council: Newry, Mourne and Down
Country: Northern Ireland
Coordinates: 54.10151, -6.25253
Date of survey: 18 August 1999
HB reference: HB16/11/049

TodayHistorical map

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Get directions ↗

This record in the Department's Historic Buildings Record ↗

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

All that remains of the former Shambles, is an oval ashlar sandstone plaque now reset into a modern pebble dashed surround at corner of Keys Lane and East Street. The latter comprises a smooth rendered panel with granite block trim. Plaque reads: ‘MEAT MARKET/ AND/ SHAMBLES/ RH/ 1834’. Below, a modern bronze plaque states ‘THIS STONE MARKING THE FORMER SITE/ OF THE SHAMBLES (SLAUGHTERHOUSE)/ AND MEAT MARKET/ WAS ERECTED BY/ NEWRY AND MOURNE DISTRICT COUNCIL/ ON BEHALF OF/ WARRENPOINT HISTORICAL GROUP/ J. McCART CHAIRMAN JUNE 1984’.

Historical information

Plaque attests to its erection by Roger Hall (of Narrow Water Castle) in 1834. Shown on the Valuation town map of that year and described in the corresponding Valuation Book as "new shambles built by R. Hall to be let"; measurements given as 43ft6in x 17ft x 9ft, with a 23ft x 20ft 6in x 9ft return.

Primary sources
1. Plaque.
2. Valuation town map, 1834 (PRONI, VAL/1D/3/2).
3. First Valuation book, 1835 (PRONI, VAL/1B/367, p.61).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This small plaque marking the site of the former shambles is of some local interest.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Department for Communities, Historic Environment Division, Historic Buildings Record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Department for Communities, Historic Environment Division · Open Government Licence v3.0

All Demolished in Newry, Mourne and Down All Council Newry, Mourne and Down records All Northern Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)

See your own family's places on a living map