Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB16/05/035

Address :
Marker Post Near 34 Kilfeaghan Road Kilkeel Newry Co Down BT34 3AW

Townland:
Kilfeaghan

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Water Works Structures

Former Use
Water Works Structures

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
Yes

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
278/13

IG Ref:
J2292 1614

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Owner Category

Central Govt

Exterior Description And Setting

This stone marks where a buried water main to Warrenpoint crosses under the road from its abstraction point higher up on Cassy Water. It is of finely-dressed granite and is embedded in a random rubble wall on west side of the road. It stands 94cm high, has a semicircular top and is of rectangular cross section, 30cm wide by 22cm deep. Neatly carved into its road face are the capital letters W.W.W. [= Warrenpoint Water Works]. To its immediate left is an unrelated water trough fed by a pipe from the slope above. The take-off, at the junction of the Cassy and Cross Waters (grid J 228 183), comprises a small vertical concrete weir across the stream, with opening on right bank into a small smooth cement rendered building with semicircular roof.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

In 1910, Warrenpoint Urban Council obtained Parliamentary approval for a new water scheme. This was completed in 1912 at a cost of £11,000. The Valuation Revision maps of 1895-1914 shows the line of the pipe. No building is shown at the abstraction point on the 1919 OS 6” map, suggesting that there was originally only a weir across the river at this point. Primary Sources: 1. PRONI – VAL 12D/3/55. 2. Ulster Provincial Directory, 1910 and 1912.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Very modest in scale and of local interest only. This type of marker is relatively scarce in a Northern Ireland context.

General Comments

Date of Survey

09 July 1998