Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Electricity Memorial
Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- D1 Record Only
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Electricity Memorial, Charlemont Square, Bessbrook, Co. Armagh
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.19605, -6.39580
- Date of survey
- 02 December 2014
- HB reference
- HB16/22/033
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
This memorial was surveyed in the First Survey but not listed. A partial record only was taken during the Second Survey as the memorial is not worthy of a full survey. Polished granite pedestal type memorial located in Charlemont Square and is inscribed on three of its four sides.
Main inscription reads: ‘this town was lighten by electricity A.D. 1911 as a token of regard for its inhabitants and in loving memory of John Crubb Richardson B. 1813 D. 1890. At one time sole owner of Bessbrook. By his sons James Nicholson Richardson. Thomas Wakefield Richardson. Work was superintended by Herbert Dowell A.M.I.M.E engineer and carried out by John Jackson, William Black, George Blakeley, Ishmael Hanratty’.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
This memorial was surveyed in the First Survey but not listed. A partial record only was taken during the Second Survey as the memorial is not worthy of a full survey. Polished granite pedestal type memorial located in Charlemont Square and is inscribed on three of its four sides.
Main inscription reads: ‘this town was lighten by electricity A.D. 1911 as a token of regard for its inhabitants and in loving memory of John Crubb Richardson B. 1813 D. 1890. At one time sole owner of Bessbrook. By his sons James Nicholson Richardson. Thomas Wakefield Richardson. Work was superintended by Herbert Dowell A.M.I.M.E engineer and carried out by John Jackson, William Black, George Blakeley, Ishmael Hanratty’.
Nearby in the register
- 12 CHARLEMONT SQUARE EASTHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
- 13 CHARLEMONT SQUARE EASTHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
- 14 CHARLEMONT SQUARE EASTHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
- 11 CHARLEMONT SQUARE EASTHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.