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’Drift Inn’ Bar

Donaghadee, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of ’Drift Inn’ Bar, Donaghadee, 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
Demolished
Date of listing
5 May 1982
Date of delisting
26 May 1995
Address
’Drift Inn’ Bar, Manor Street, Donaghadee, Co Down
Townland
Donaghadee
Council
Ards and North Down
Country
Northern Ireland
Coordinates
54.64279, -5.53255
Date of survey
08 May 1998
HB reference
HB24/07/012

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1690 map "Scotland below the Tay." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1690 · Scotland below the Tay. (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)
  • 1841 · Scotland (Southern part). XIII (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Site (at the N end of Manor Street near the Parade) of a former public house of probable early nineteenth century origin, demolished c.1994, with site still empty.

This building was described in 1977 as a ‘substantial two storey, late Georgian house...[with] central doorway with fine elliptical arch fanlight...flanked by wide canted bays which rise to pyramidal roofs’.

Historical information

The town plan of Donaghadee, drawn up to accompany the valuation records of c.1836, shows the former house on this site with its canted bays. At this stage the building is noted as part of the estate ‘of the late R. Halliday’ with a rateable value of £34. With the coming of the railway to Donaghadee in 1860/1 (the line ended just to the NE of this site) the property became the Railway Hotel and latterly served as a public house. The building was demolished c.1994.

References- Primary sources
1. PRONI VAL 1B/32 pp.9 1st valuation, Donaghadee parish, Donaghadee., c.1836. [See also accompanying town plan.]
2. PRONI OS Maps 1st rev. 1858-60, Co. Down 3.
3. PRONI 2nd (‘Griffith’s’) valuation Donaghadee parish, Donaghadee, 1863. [The town plan for the 2nd valuation is not available at PRONI and therefore it is difficult to match the properties listed in the valuation with actual buildings.]

Secondary sources

1. Hugh Dixon et al Historic buildings, groups of buildings, buildings of architectural importance in Donaghadee and Portpatrick (UAHS 1977), p.25.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Site of former house (latterly a public house) dating from c.1830, demolished c.1994 with site still vacant.

Nearby in the register

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

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