Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB16/01/071

Address :
Milestone Outside150 Glassdrumman Rd Annalong Newry Co Down BT34 4QL

Townland:
Mullartown

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Milestone

Former Use
Milestone

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
Yes

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
279/7

IG Ref:
J3736 2033

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Owner Category

Local Govt

Exterior Description And Setting

A dressed granite post embedded in a roadside bank on the west side of the Newcastle – Kilkeel road several yards south of a bend warning sign. It stands 60cm high and is c.23cmn square in cross-section with a pyramidal top. The figure ‘19’ is cut 15cm high into the road-facing surface (the other surfaces are now hidden).

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

This mile marker first appears on the 1901 OS 6" map (sheet 53). Given that the distance is in Irish, rather than Imperial, measure it was almost certainly extant at the time of the 1859 map, but simply not marked. It probably dates from the late 1700s or early 1800s, if not before (it is uncertain whether the mile intervals shown along this road on A. Taylor and G. Skinner's Maps of the roads of Ireland, 1777 correspond with actual markers). Primary source: 1. PRONI – OS 6/3/53/1 (1834 map). 2. PRONI- OS 6/3/53/2 (1859 map). Secondary source: 1. J & N Newell, 'Mourne milestones', in 12 Miles of Mourne, vol.5, (Kilkeel 1992) pp. 58-60.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

There were 24 milestones between Newry and Newcastle, of which 17 still survive including (HB16/01/047 and HB16/01/069). As a group they are very probably now a unique survival in the province.

General Comments

Date of Survey

22 May 1997