Killaresy Church, Lower Clay Road, Clay, Killinchy, Co. Down is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Newry, Mourne and Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Killaresy Church, Lower Clay Road, Clay, Killinchy, Co. Down
- WRENN ID
- grey-thatch-bracken
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Constituency
- Strangford MP: Jim Shannon (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- J 512 569
- Coordinates
- 54.43848, -5.66941
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
The ruins of a small church, likely of late medieval origin (before 1600), are overgrown and situated approximately three miles north of Killyleagh, immediately south of the Lower Clay Road. The rectangular church plan measures roughly 25.5 metres by 7 metres, but the low-level remains of the walls are entirely covered in vegetation, obscuring their details. The church is surrounded by a graveyard containing headstones of various denominations, the earliest legible inscription dating from 1724. The graveyard is bounded by a high, random rubble wall along the roadside. The site was recorded as a "burial ground" on an Ordnance Survey map of 1834 and as "Killaresy Church (in ruins)" on a revised map of 1859. The church also functions as a monument.
Local climate
Killaresy Church, Lower Clay Road, Clay, Killinchy, Co. Down receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% 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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