Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
116 Killinchy Road,
Ballykeel, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Demolished
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- 116 Killinchy Road,, Ballykeel,, Comber,, Co. Down, BT23 5NE
- Townland
- Ballykeel
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.52467, -5.72212
- Date of survey
- 22 January 1999
- HB reference
- HB24/16/041
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1794 "Sheet 55. (Cary's England, Wales, and Scotland)." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Site, and the end of a farm lane to the E of the Killinchy Road c.2 miles S of Comber, of a former single storey house, now demolished with new larger dwelling in place.
The former property was described in the 1st survey (9th Jan. 1974) as a ‘Single storey cottage. Roof slated in 2 sections, gable ends. Chimneys brick and rough cast. Walls rough cast and whitewashed. SW front has 3 drop hung windows [with] Georgian panes. Doorway between 2nd and 3rd windows, door panelled, plain fanlight. Condition poorish. Front about 52 feet. Extension and outbuildings at back. Inscription on stone to front….Inscription stone reads “Built by H. Lowry 1832”’.
All outbuildings appear to have been demolished as well as the house.
Historical information
The inscription stone noted in the original survey suggests that the house previously on this site was constructed in 1832. A building of the same plan appears on the 1834 OS map and the valuation returns (of the same year) note that the property was in the hands of a Hamilton Lowry (presumably the ‘H. Lowry’ on the stone), and consisted of a ‘house, house return, office and house’ all of which had a [?presumably below] rateable value of £4-13-6. The complex was undoubtedly leased by Lowry from Rev. Mark Cassidy, the then curate of St. Marks Newtownards and proprietor of Ballykeel townland.
Judging by the appearance of the new dwelling on the site, it appears the former Lowry farmstead was demolished in its entirety perhaps around 1990.
Primary sources
1 PRONI D.1088 Cassidy Papers- The papers of Rev. Mark Cassidy as perpetual curate of Newtownards, c.1810-20.
2 PRONI OS map 1st ed. 1834, Down 10.
3 PRONI VAL1B/316C, p.50 1st valuation Comber parish 1834.
4 ‘Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Vol.7: Parishes of County Down II’, ed. Angelique Day and Patrick McWilliams (QUB 1991), p.38.
5 PRONI OS map 1st rev. 1858-60, Down 10.
6 PRONI 2nd valuation Comber parish c.1863.
7 EHS HB24/16/41 1st survey notes and slide.
8 EHS OS map 167-3 (1:2500) 1972.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Site of former single storey vernacular farm house, constructed in 1832 but demolished c.1990 with larger modern dwelling now on general site.
Nearby in the register
- Chambered grave,Mausoleumunder 1 mi
- Edenville,Houseunder 1 mi
- 109 Killinchy Road,Houseunder 1 mi
- ‘The Burn’,Houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.