Clonlum South Cairn, Ballintemple Road, Newry, Co Armagh is a listed building in the Newry, Mourne and Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.

Clonlum South Cairn, Ballintemple Road, Newry, Co Armagh

WRENN ID
grim-sill-shade
Grade
Local Planning Authority
Newry, Mourne and Down
Constituency
Newry and Armagh MP: Dáire Hughes (SF)
Country
Northern Ireland
Irish grid reference
J 046 206
Coordinates
54.12396, -6.40088
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

This is a rare and significant survival of a Neolithic burial chamber, dating from approximately 5000 to 2500 BC. It is located in a field on the east side of Ballintemple Road, near Newry, County Armagh. The burial chamber is set into a sub-rectangular platform, about 1.2 metres high, constructed of random rubble fieldstones and now covered with grass. The single chamber’s interior is defined by large granite slabs and is partially sunk into the ground's surface; it would originally have been entirely covered. Two large capstones are positioned above the chamber, with one having slipped to one side. A large boulder situated on the south edge of the mound may represent a dislodged third capstone. The site is recorded in the Armagh Site & Monuments Record (reference 29:5).

Local climate

Clonlum South Cairn, Ballintemple Road, Newry, Co Armagh receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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