Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB24/17/030

Address :
Ballybunden Mill bridge [off Saintfield Road] Kilmood Killinchy Co Down BT23 6R[?]

Townland:
Kilmood

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Bridge

Former Use
Bridge

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
Yes

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
167/15

IG Ref:
J4837 6080

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Small road bridge over the River Blackwater giving access to a former mill complex. The bridge is situated off a narrow [?private] road just N of the Saintfield Road, less than 1 mile W of the hamlet of Balloo. The bridge is (random) rubble built with a small area patched in brick at the W end of the S side. Two low segmental arches. On the N side there are large protruding boulders between the arches which act as a cutwater. Rough coping to parapets, which appears to have been patched recently to the N side. The bridge is partly overgrown with ivy with some weeds to road, but it appears to be is good order. Former Mill complex to NE seems to be used as stores.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

This bridge is shown on the OS Map of 1834. The valuation records state that the adjacent ‘flax mill and store’ were in possession of a Joseph Patton and had a rateable value of £3-19-0. References- Primary sources 1 PRONI OS Maps 1st ed. 1834, Co. Down 16. 2 PRONI VAL 1B/320 p.17 1st valuation, Kilmood parish, Kilmood td, c.1835. 3 PRONI OS Maps 1st rev. 1859-60, Co. Down 16. 4 PRONI 2nd (‘Griffith’s’) valuation, Kilmood parish, Kilmood td., 1861. Secondary sources 1 Fred Hammond “Communications in Co. Down” in 'Down- History and society, ed Lindsay Proudfoot' (Dublin 1997), pp.599-628.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Small rubble built bridge of probable early nineteenth century origin (at least) associated with neighbouring former flax mill.

General Comments

Date of Survey

08 July 1998