Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
73 Donaghadee Road
Ballycopeland, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Demolished
- Date of listing
- 20 December 1976
- Date of delisting
- 6 August 1990
- Address
- 73 Donaghadee Road, Ballycopeland, Millisle, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2BZ
- Townland
- Ballycopeland
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.61483, -5.53145
- Date of survey
- 04 March 1998
- HB reference
- HB24/05/047
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 1690 "Scotland below the Tay." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Site of former, small, single storey thatched house on the W side of the Millisle Road, less than half a mile N of Millisle, demolished 1982 with modern dwelling now built in place.
Description from 1st Survey Card "Single/storey cottage, gable ends. Roof thatched. Chimney brick and rendered. Wall roughcast and whitened. S front has 2 D/H windows, Georgian panes and one horiz. astragal. Central door sheeted and half door shed on W gable."
Historical information
On the OS Map of 1833/4 this general site is taken up with a number of small structures one of which appears to have matched the positioning of the recently demolished thatched cottage.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI VAL 1B/32 Valuation records for the townland of Ballycopeland (Parish of Donaghadee) 1830s.
2 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps 1st Edition 1833/4, Co. Down 7.
3 Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Vol.7: Parishes of County Down II, ed. Angelique Day and Patrick McWilliams (QUB 1991), p. 49.
4 PRONI Ordnance Survey Maps 1st Revision 1858-60, Co. Down 7.
5 PRONI ‘Griffith’s’ valuation for the townland of Ballycopeland (Parish of Donaghadee) 1863.
Secondary sources
1 Grace Seymour 'Echoes of Millisle and district' (Rathfriland ?c.1980).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Site of former small single storey thatched house, of possible early nineteenth century origin, demolished in 1982.
Nearby in the register
- CemeteryGraveyardunder 1 mi
- The Mill HouseHouseunder 1 mi
- WWII Observation postWorld War II Structuresunder 1 mi
- 4 Shore RoadHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.