Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB20/04/042 O

Address :
Dunmore Cottage Shane's Castle Park Antrim Co Antrim

Townland:
Shane's Castle Park

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Demolished

Former Use
House

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
Demolished

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OS Map No:
95/11

IG Ref:
J0825 8945

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Demolished and the site now part of a field with no trace of the building remaining. Described in the first survey in 1971 as "A single storey blackstone cottage with brick-dressed opes. The entrance in a gabled timber porch is flanked by low plain sashed windows. There are also two sheeted doors, a fully glazed triple window and an eight pane window in the main elevation. A part of the building to the north is roofless. There is an oeuil-de-boeuf at rear."

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Built by the O'Neill family of Shane's Castle as an estate cottage; precise date of building not known, but it appears on the OS map of 1829 & 32; named on the OS map of 1858. Partly derelict by the early 1970s, it was subsequently demolished. References – Primary Sources 1. OS Map 1829 & 32, Co Antrim 49 (but not named). 2. OS Map 1858, Co Antrim 49 (named). 3. Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol 19: Parishes of County Antrim VI, 1830, 1833, 1835-8 (Belfast, 1993), p 50.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Demolished and the site now part of a field with no trace of the building remaining.

General Comments

This record was originally numbered as HB20/04/046.

Date of Survey

14 October 2000