St. Mary’s Church, Bloody Bridge, Ballagh Road, Newcastle, Co Down, BT33 0LA is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Newry, Mourne and Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
St. Mary’s Church, Bloody Bridge, Ballagh Road, Newcastle, Co Down, BT33 0LA
- WRENN ID
- waning-shingle-oak
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Constituency
- South Down MP: Chris Hazzard (SF)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Address
- St. Mary’s Church, Bloody Bridge, Ballagh Road, Newcastle, Co Down, BT33 0LA, Ballaghanery Upper, BT33 0LA
- Irish grid reference
- J 388 267
- Coordinates
- 54.17104, -5.87474
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
St. Mary’s Church, near Bloody Bridge, is a former church situated in the townland of Ballaghanery Upper, Newcastle, County Down. While the date of the present structure is unknown, a record from 1615 references a "Capella de Balloch-enevry" in the area, suggesting a medieval origin. The building is marked as a ruin on an Ordnance Survey map from 1834. An etching from 1844 depicts stonework above the chancel arch, and a survey card dates part of the arch’s rebuilding to 1972. The church was one of several chapels associated with the medieval Plebnia of Kilkeel, alongside chapels at Kilcoo, Kilmegan, Tamlaght, and Greencastle. Currently, only a semicircular chancel arch remains upstanding, constructed of split Silurian rubble. The outline of the nave walls is visible in the ground, and ancient gravestones are scattered around the field. It is recorded as derelict and is designated a scheduled monument (Down 49:12).
Local climate
St. Mary’s Church, Bloody Bridge, Ballagh Road, Newcastle, Co Down, BT33 0LA sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 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 95% 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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