Standing stone, Glenmoore Farm, Holywood Road, Killarn, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT23 4? is a listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Standing stone, Glenmoore Farm, Holywood Road, Killarn, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT23 4?
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-slate-finch
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Ards and North Down
- Constituency
- Strangford MP: Jim Shannon (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- J 444 758
- Coordinates
- 54.61057, -5.76578
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
A prehistoric standing stone stands within a field to the rear (west) of Glenmoore Farm, located at the end of a lane west of the Holywood Road, approximately two miles northwest of Newtownards in County Down. The stone is constructed of sandstone, likely Scrabo sandstone, and measures roughly 1.75 meters in height, with dimensions of 0.75 by 0.5 meters at its base. It has an irregular shape and displays apparent fault lines on its eastern face. The stone was likely erected in prehistoric times and may have held religious significance; it appears on Ordnance Survey maps from 1833/4 and 1858-60. Historical records, including Ordnance Survey maps and published archaeological surveys, document its presence.
Local climate
Standing stone, Glenmoore Farm, Holywood Road, Killarn, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT23 4? sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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