Standing stone, off Moat Road, Ballyhalbert, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 1D? is a listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Standing stone, off Moat Road, Ballyhalbert, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 1D?
- WRENN ID
- final-pier-sable
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Ards and North Down
- Constituency
- Strangford MP: Jim Shannon (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- J 646 635
- Coordinates
- 54.49364, -5.45942
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
A standing stone dating from before 1600 is located in a field southwest of Ballyhalbert, near Newtownards, County Down. This substantial stone, measuring approximately 1.75 metres by 0.75 metres by 0.5 metres, stands at the edge of a field adjacent to Moat Road. Historical records indicate a possible discrepancy; the Ordnance Survey Memoirs of around 1833 describe a standing stone southwest of the village with different dimensions, suggesting a potential reference to another, now lost, antiquity. However, the current stone is shown on the Ordnance Survey Map of 1834. The stone is considered a monument and remains in situ. The site is owned by central government.
Local climate
Standing stone, off Moat Road, Ballyhalbert, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 1D? sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% 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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