Milestone, Outside 408 Glasdrumman Road, Annalong, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4QW is a listed building in the Newry, Mourne and Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Milestone, Outside 408 Glasdrumman Road, Annalong, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4QW
- WRENN ID
- iron-cornice-magpie
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Constituency
- South Down MP: Chris Hazzard (SF)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- J 383 243
- Coordinates
- 54.14959, -5.88406
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This is a dressed granite milestone located on the west side of the Newcastle–Kilkeel road, outside the entrance to 408 Glasdrumman Road, Annalong, near Newry. It is one of 17 surviving milestones originally marking the route between Newry and Newcastle, a group thought to be a unique survival in the province. The milestone appears as a roughly rectangular post, approximately 23cm square, rising 60cm above the ground and capped with a pyramid. The inscription '21', measuring approximately 9cm in height, is incised on the three faces visible from the road. This number indicates the distance, in Irish miles, from Newry. The stone has been slightly repositioned due to road widening.
The milestone first appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1901. Based on its use of the Irish mile measurement, it was almost certainly in existence by 1859, though not recorded on that map. It likely dates from the late 1700s or early 1800s, though precise dating is uncertain due to the ambiguity of earlier road maps. The milestone possesses industrial archaeological interest.
Local climate
Milestone, Outside 408 Glasdrumman Road, Annalong, Newry, Co Down, BT34 4QW sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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