Dolmen, near 9 Ballygraffan Road, Ballygraffan, Comber, Co. Down, BT23 5NB is a listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Dolmen, near 9 Ballygraffan Road, Ballygraffan, Comber, Co. Down, BT23 5NB
- WRENN ID
- third-corbel-magpie
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Ards and North Down
- Constituency
- Strangford MP: Jim Shannon (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- J 473 671
- Coordinates
- 54.53164, -5.72513
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
The site contains the remains of a prehistoric chambered grave, also known as a dolmen, located near 9 Ballygraffan Road, Ballygraffan, Comber, County Down. Dating from the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age periods, the dolmen is situated near the edge of a field approximately two miles south of Comber. It consists of a large basalt capstone, measuring just under a metre in thickness, resting on a small rock outcrop. Below the capstone are several smaller stones, and two large boulders which likely formed part of the original support system, but have since collapsed under the capstone’s weight. The entire structure is partially overgrown with grass. The site is recorded in the Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record as DOW 10:36. It is a monument and currently serves as an archaeological site, situated on privately owned land.
Local climate
Dolmen, near 9 Ballygraffan Road, Ballygraffan, Comber, Co. Down, BT23 5NB sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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