Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Standing stone,
Ballyhalbert, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Standing Stone
- Date of construction
- Pre 1600
- Address
- Standing stone,, off Moat Road, Ballyhalbert, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 1D?
- Townland
- Ballyhalbert
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.49364, -5.45942
- Date of survey
- 11 September 1997
- HB reference
- HB24/03/002
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 1637 "The Fourth table of Ireland. Ultonia Oriental" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Smooth [?] ‘Scrabo stone’ standing stone situated at the edge of a field next to the Moat Road in Ballyhalbert Townland and measuring c.1.75m x c.0.75m x c.0.5m.
Historical information
The OS Memoirs of c.1833 mention a standing stone a ‘short distance’ south-west of the village of Ballyhalbert ‘the height of which is 11 feet and 12 inches circumference’, given the discrepancy in measurements, this may be a reference to another [?now missing] antiquity. This particular stone, however, is marked on the OS Map of 1834.
References- Secondary sources
1 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps, 1st Edition, 1834, Co. Down 18.
2 Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Vol.7: Parishes of County Down II, ed. Angelique Day and Patrick McWilliams (QUB 1991), p. 12.
3 'Archaeological Survey of County Down' (Belfast, 1966), p. 96.
4 EHS SMR No.DOW 18:4.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Large standing stone situated in a field south west of Ballyhalbert.
Nearby in the register
- Ballyhalbert ChurchGraveyardunder 1 mi
- Victoria SchoolDemolishedunder 1 mi
- School Master's HouseDemolishedunder 1 mi
- CottagesHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.