Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Milestone
Maddydrumbrist, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Milestone
- Date of construction
- 1800 - 1819
- Address
- Milestone, on W side of road near, 168 Belfast Road, Newry, Co Down, BT34 1QY
- Townland
- Maddydrumbrist
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.24148, -6.32148
- Date of survey
- 05 February 2000
- HB reference
- HB16/14/056
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Situated on verge on left (W) side of main Belfast Road. A finely dressed granite post (c75cm in height) with a sloping top and chamfered basecourse. There is a recess to front into which a cast iron plaque (now gone) would have been inset. Two bolts holes run through from front to back of stone.
Historical information
This milepost is very similar to that near Millbrook Villas on the Belfast Road (HB16/26/067). It lies along the main Banbridge – Newry turnpike road and is probably of early 19th century date (although not cited in the OS 6" maps until the 1903 edition).
Primary sources:
1. OS 6" map, 1834, Co Down sheet 40 (PRONI OS 6/3/40/1).
2. OS 6" map, 1859, Co Down sheet 40 (PRONI OS 6/3/40/2).
3. OS 6" map, 1903, Co Down sheet 40 (PRONI OS 6/3/40/3).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
One of several milestones of similar design on what was once the main Belfast – Dublin turnpike road. This example has lost its cast iron plaque but retains its prominent roadside position. Of an increasingly scarce type of industrial monument.
Nearby in the register
- 159 Belfast RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- Beech HillHouseunder 1 mi
- House at Four mile, opp. 189 Belfast RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- Vine Cottage/ HouseDemolishedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.