James Orr’s Cottage, Manse Road, Ballycarry, Larne, Co Antrim is a listed building in the Mid and East Antrim local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
James Orr’s Cottage, Manse Road, Ballycarry, Larne, Co Antrim
- WRENN ID
- night-lead-ivy
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid and East Antrim
- Constituency
- East Antrim MP: Sammy Wilson (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- J 443 938
- Coordinates
- 54.7718, -5.75783
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
James Orr’s Cottage, located on Manse Road, Ballycarry, Larne, County Antrim, dates from between 1760 and 1779. Originally a thatched house, it is now used as outbuildings and is connected to a modern bungalow. The building is single-storey and features rendered, whitened walls and an asbestos slated roof. It has rectangular timber fixed windows with plate glass and a ledged timber door with a flush exterior surface. The cottage appears on an Ordnance Survey map from 1831. It is of local interest as the birthplace of James Orr (1770-1816), also known as ‘The Bard of Ballycarry,’ a weaver, small farmer, and participant in the 1798 rebellion. His poems were initially published in Belfast newspapers and are now found in collections of Irish verse, and he is commemorated by a memorial in the old graveyard at Templecorran old church in Ballycarry. The building is situated in a grassy garden in a rural area, to the rear of the modern bungalow. A photograph of the cottage in an earlier condition, with a thatched roof, is included in “Ballycarry in Olden Days” by A. Dowlin. The architectural style is vernacular.
Local climate
James Orr’s Cottage, Manse Road, Ballycarry, Larne, Co Antrim sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% 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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