Milestone, East of 262 Newry Road, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4SD is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Newry, Mourne and Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.

Milestone, East of 262 Newry Road, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4SD

WRENN ID
ghost-lintel-shade
Grade
Record Only
Local Planning Authority
Newry, Mourne and Down
Constituency
South Down MP: Chris Hazzard (SF)
Country
Northern Ireland
Address
Milestone, East of 262 Newry Road, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4SD, Maghery, BT34 4SD
Irish grid reference
J 258 154
Coordinates
54.07269, -6.07758
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

This is a granite milestone dating from approximately 1820 to 1839. It is one of around twenty surviving milestones between Newry and Newcastle, out of an original total of twenty-four. Located on the left side of the 262 Newry Road, east of its junction with Mill Bay Road, the milestone stands in a vegetated bank. It is a finely-dressed granite post with a pyramidal top, projecting roughly 50cm above ground level and measuring 30cm square in cross-section. The number "12" is incised at a height of 15cm on each of its three faces directed towards the road. The milestone is not depicted on any Ordnance Survey map edition. The use of Irish miles in the measurement inscribed on the stone indicates its likely early 19th-century origin. It is of industrial archaeological interest.

Local climate

Milestone, East of 262 Newry Road, Kilkeel, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4SD sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 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 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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