Boundary marker on Bryansford Rd, Hilltown, Co Down, BT34 5XQ is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Newry, Mourne and Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Boundary marker on Bryansford Rd, Hilltown, Co Down, BT34 5XQ
- WRENN ID
- worn-eave-yarrow
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Constituency
- South Down MP: Chris Hazzard (SF)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Address
- Boundary marker on Bryansford Rd, Hilltown, Co Down, BT34 5XQ, Goward/ Ballynanny, BT34 5XQ
- Irish grid reference
- J 235 292
- Coordinates
- 54.19716, -6.10751
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This granite boundary marker stands on the verge of the Bryansford Road, on the north side of Hilltown, County Down, marking the boundary between the townlands of Goward and Ballynanny, approximately 100 metres east of the junction with the Hilltown-Kilkeel road. The marker is roughly 22 centimetres in cross-section and 65 centimetres high, with a rounded top. Inscribed on the west face in 12.5-centimetre high letters is "NB". The other faces are blank.
The marker was first shown on the 1919 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, though it is likely to be considerably older, dating to around 1820-1839. The inscription "NB" refers to Narcissus Batt, a notable Belfast entrepreneur and landowner in the eastern Mourne Mountains during the early 19th century. He is also commemorated by Batt’s Wall, which extends from Crotlieve Mountain to Shanlieve, and by a boundary stone in the Mourne Mountains West townland.
Local climate
Boundary marker on Bryansford Rd, Hilltown, Co Down, BT34 5XQ sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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