Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB24/03/002

Address :
Standing stone, off Moat Road Ballyhalbert Newtownards Co. Down BT22 1D?

Townland:
Ballyhalbert

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Standing Stone

Former Use
Standing Stone

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
Yes

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
169/10

IG Ref:
J6463 6356

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Owner Category

Central Govt

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.

Architects

Not Known

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

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Large standing stone situated in a field south west of Ballyhalbert.

General Comments

Date of Survey

11 September 1997