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Mausoleum

Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mausoleum, Ards and North Down, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1697 · Scotia, Parte Meridionale (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1794 · Sheet 55. (Cary's England, Wales, and Scotland). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Department for Communities, Historic Environment Division, Historic Buildings Record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Department for Communities, Historic Environment Division · Open Government Licence v3.0
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