Ballybunden Mill bridge, [off Saintfield Road], Kilmood, Killinchy, Co Down, BT23 6R[?] is a listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Ballybunden Mill bridge, [off Saintfield Road], Kilmood, Killinchy, Co Down, BT23 6R[?]
- WRENN ID
- late-chancel-violet
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Ards and North Down
- Constituency
- Strangford MP: Jim Shannon (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- J 483 608
- Coordinates
- 54.47398, -5.71198
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
A small, probable early nineteenth-century rubble bridge associated with a former flax mill, located off a narrow road north of the Saintfield Road, approximately one mile west of the hamlet of Balloo, in County Down. The bridge crosses the River Blackwater and provides access to the former mill complex. It is constructed of random rubble, with a small area patched in brick at the west end of the south side. The bridge features two low segmental arches, and large protruding boulders between the arches on the north side acting as a cutwater. It has rough coping to its parapets, which appear to have been recently patched on the north side. The bridge is partly overgrown with ivy and some weeds. The former mill complex to the northeast is currently used as storage. The bridge is depicted on the Ordnance Survey map of 1834. Valuation records from around 1835 indicate that the adjacent “flax mill and store” was owned by a Joseph Patton and had a rateable value of £3-19-0. The bridge is of industrial archaeological interest.
Local climate
Ballybunden Mill bridge, [off Saintfield Road], Kilmood, Killinchy, Co Down, BT23 6R[?] receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% 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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