Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB06/01/032

Address :
Harbour, Garron Road, Carnlough, Ballymena Co Antrim

Townland:
Galboly Lower

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Harbour/ Pier

Former Use
Harbour/ Pier

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
Yes

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
35/4

IG Ref:
D3016 2370

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A small harbour of masonry construction; built of basalt rubble and limestone, both roughly squared and rubble, with a later top edge of rough concrete. It is aligned on a north to south axis with the opening at the south end; approach to entrance lined with rocks; concrete slipway located on west side. SETTING: The harbour stands in a very rural area on a very rocky foreshore with rough grass immediately surrounding it. Fenced off with timber posts and wire. Approached on land by a rough cement screed path leading from the main road to a small slipway; modern tubular steel gate flanked by curved limestone rubble front boundary walls.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Precise date of building not known but it appears on the OS map of 1857; reputedly built by the Marchioness of Londonderry whose summer residence, Garron Tower, stands on the precipice above, and probably dating from the late 1840s to early 1850s when she was carrying out improvements in the area. References – Primary Sources 1. OS Map 1857, Co Antrim 20. Secondary Sources 1. UAHS, Glens of Antrim (Belfast, 1971), p 25 (item no. 30). 2. IHR 6533.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

This is a small harbour of some local interest and association but which is of crude construction.

General Comments

Date of Survey

24 November 2000