Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Edenderry Factory
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- No type recorded
- Address
- Edenderry Factory, Lurgan road, Banbridge, Co. Down, BT32 4LY
- Council
- Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.35429, -6.27228
- Date of survey
- 12 April 2012
- HB reference
- HB17/04/013
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A three-storey blackstone linen factory with sheds, now demolished and replaced with a modern housing development.
The First Survey card records:
‘Pre 1861 and later. 2 storey & sheds, still producing linen. Blackstone with brick arches & dressings. 400’ x 200’ O/A
Thos. Ferguson opened a factory at Edenderry in 1866, in premises acquired from W.A.Stewart, who was a thread manufacturer in 1850.
2 smaller buildings beside river are shown on O.S. Map of 1861. Building 100’ X 27’ shown at corner of present building and marked ‘Linen Manufactory’ Industrial Archaeology of Co. Down E.B.R.Green
Date of visit: 16th September 1969’
Historical information
N/A
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
A three-storey blackstone linen factory with sheds, now demolished and replaced with a modern housing development.
General comments
Partial Survey Only
Nearby in the register
- Clonaslee, 2 Lurgan Road, Seapatrick, Banbridge, BT32 4AFHouseunder 1 mi
- Old Presbyterian Grave YardNo type recordedunder 1 mi
- Former Lancasterian SchoolHouseunder 1 mi
- Railway BridgeNo type recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.