Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Milestone opposite 123 Castle Road
Shane's Castle Park, Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Milestone
- Date of listing
- 23 March 2005
- Date of construction
- 1860 - 1879
- Address
- Milestone opposite 123 Castle Road, Antrim, Co Antrim
- Townland
- Shane's Castle Park
- Council
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.73736, -6.27912
- Date of survey
- 28 October 2000
- HB reference
- HB20/04/064
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1854 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1854 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1857 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A cast-iron milestone comprising two sides set at an angle with a raking triangular top, 48.5 cms wide, the three faces bearing locations and distances in miles in raised letters, as follows: 'Randalstown 2 miles; Antrim 3 miles; Belfast 20'.
SETTING: It is located in a rural area, at the side of the road, on the footpath, against the basalt rubble boundary wall of the Shane's Castle estate.
Historical information
Precise date of erecting not known but such mileposts in this locality are marked for the first time on the OS map of 1902, and may be taken to probably date from the 1860s.
References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1902, Co Antrim 49.
Secondary Sources
1. W.A. McCutcheon, The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland (HMSO, Belfast, 1980), p 31, and plate 4.2 for a comparable example.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Z. Rarity
X. Local Interest
Evaluation
An example of a mid-Victorian cast iron milepost, formerly plentiful but now comparatively rare, there being only three remaining in the Randalstown ward.
Nearby in the register
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- 1 & 2 Edenduff TerraceHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
- 3 & 4 Edenduff TerraceHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.