Site of former 129 Bryansford Road, Moyad, Newcastle, Co Down

Site, on the S side of the Bryansford Road, 5 miles W of Newcastle (and a mile S of the small village of Kilcoo), of a former 2 storey vernacular house of possible pre 1834 origin, demolished c.1994-5. The site is now vacant, though some (derelict) single storey, rubble-built, outbuildings remain. A modern style single storey replacement dwelling has been built a short distance to the SE of the site. The original house was described in the first survey of July 1972 as: ‘A two storey harled and whitened house with parapet gables [and] four chimneys. Sashed windows have vertical division. A gabled porch has a carved barge board. Storage accommodation at east end has a sheeted door to the ground floor and steps to upper part’. The accompanying survey photograph shows the house to have been a vernacular dwelling.