Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Mausoleum
Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Mausoleum
- Address
- Mausoleum, Balloo House, Balloo Road, Bangor, Co Down
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.64139, -5.66556
- Date of survey
- 20 August 2010
- HB reference
- HB23/06/002
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
The structure has been demolished and the site cleared. The site now houses a park and wind turbine.
The First Survey card records:
‘Tomb built into rocky mound with field rubble walls, flat arch entrance recess to E & flat curved roof rendered over. Above bricked-up inner entrance is inscription "The Tomb of William Nicholson Esq. - 30 Jan. 1792". Recent white marble slab on S. wall of entrance records "Wm. W. Steele-Nicholson Born 1772 - Died 1840" & other members of family up to recent times.
Tomb appears as "Mausoleum" on O.S. Map of 1833.
Date of visit: 13/12/73'
Historical information
N/A
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
The structure has been demolished and the site cleared. The site now accommodates a park and wind turbine
General comments
Partial Survey Only
Nearby in the register
- Balloo HouseDemolishedunder 1 mi
- Road-over-former railway BridgeNo type recordedunder 1 mi
- Bangor CemeteryNo type recordedunder 1 mi
- Burial GroundNo type recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.