BALLYBOT Heritage Profile

By Daniel Kirkpatrick | Compiled 2026-05-05 | N08001003

8 historic sites 0 scheduled monuments 74 listed buildings 2 archaeological periods

BALLYBOT covers 7.2 km² in Northern Ireland. With 8 historic sites and 0 scheduled monuments on record, the ward sits at the 63rd percentile across all 462 NI wards for combined archaeological heritage. It also records 74 listed buildings (HED Historic Buildings Record), the 88th percentile for listed-building density across NI wards. Per 1,000 residents, this works out at 15.5 recorded sites — the 54th percentile across NI wards (a measure of heritage density relative to current population). Dated archaeological evidence runs from the Neolithic through to the Post-Medieval period, spanning 2 archaeological periods, the 22nd percentile across NI wards (a relatively narrow chronological band). Note: 62% of historic site records have unresolved period attribution; chronological figures reflect only the dated subset.

BALLYBOT boundary detail

BALLYBOT in regional context

Heritage at a glance

Percentile rankings throughout this profile compare each ward only against the other 461 Northern Ireland wards.

Historic sites

43rd percentile

Scheduled monuments

17th percentile

Listed buildings

88th percentile

11.42

Sites per km²

Population context

737

Persons per km²

73rd percentile

15.5

Sites per 1,000 residents

54th percentile

5,289

Total residents (2021)

The recorded heritage of BALLYBOT

Of the 8 historic sites recorded, the most common are A.P. Site (3, 38% of historic sites), A.P. Site – Cropmark (1), and Workhouse Burial Grounds (1). For A.P. Sites, this is the 21st percentile across NI wards that record this type. For A.P. Site – Cropmarks, this is the 0th percentile across NI wards that record this type. Across the ward's 7.2 km², this gives a recorded density of 11.39 sites per km² (all heritage types combined). Note: 62% of historic site records carry an 'Unknown' period attribution and cannot be placed chronologically; the chronological breakdown reported below reflects only the dated subset.

Most common monument types

Type	Count	Description
A.p. Site	3	—
A.p. Site – Cropmark	1	—
Workhouse Burial Grounds	1	—

Chronological distribution

Neolithic

Post Medieval

Unknown

Note: 62% of historic site records carry an ‘Unknown’ period attribution. The chronological breakdown above reflects only the dated subset.

Terrain and environment

Mean elevation of 42m sits around the NI median (33th percentile), reaching 97m at the highest point. The terrain is consistently steep, with a mean slope of 5.5° (82th percentile across NI). The Topographic Wetness Index of 9.9 (21th NI percentile) indicates moderate drainage, balanced between upland shedding and lowland accumulation. The land-cover mosaic combines urban land (46%), improved grassland (31%), and woodland (20%), giving a mixed agricultural and semi-natural landscape. In overall character, this is steeply-sloping terrain at modest elevation, with land use dominated by urban land.

Terrain measurements

Mean elevation41.8 m 33rd pct

Max elevation96.9 m 41st pct

Mean slope5.5° 83rd pct

Wetness index (TWI)9.89 22nd pct

Grassland31.0% 30th pct

Woodland19.5% 57th pct

Cropland3.6% 73rd pct

Urban land45.9% 80th pct

Where this ward sits in NI

Elevation

33rd

Slope

83rd

Drainage

22nd

Grassland

30th

Woodland

57th

Geology and preservation

The dominant bedrock formed during the Palaeozoic era (Silurian period). Ancient sedimentary or metamorphic rock dating to before the age of dinosaurs; the resulting landscape has been long-stable enough to host every period of human activity. Bedrock composition is uniform (complexity index 0.00), with a single dominant geological unit underlying most of the ward. A uniform geology narrows the natural lithic-resource base available to past inhabitants.

Bedrock eraPalaeozoic

Bedrock periodSilurian

Surface depositsTill

Peat coverage0.0%

Bedrock complexity0.00

Placename evidence

This ward has only 4 placenames recorded across OSNI, Logainm NI, and GeoNames, none of which fall into the diagnostic categories used for heritage analysis (ecclesiastical, defensive, Norse, Anglo-Norman, or Plantation-era). The remainder are generic Gaelic landscape forms that are common across Ireland and carry no specific period signal.

Recorded historic sites

Name	Period	Type
A.P. SITE	Unknown	Unknown
A.P. SITE	Unknown	Unknown
A.P. SITE	Unknown	Unknown
A.P. SITE – cropmark	Unknown	Unknown
French drain	Post-Medieval	Unknown
Neolithic campsite	Neolithic	Unknown
Workhouse	Unknown	Domestic
Workhouse Burial Grounds	Post-Medieval	Ritual/Funerary

Listed buildings in BALLYBOT

Address / Name	Grade	Period
Convent of Mercy Catherine St Newry Co Down BT35 6JG	B1	1860 – 1879
Convent of Mercy Chapel Catherine St Newry Co Down BT35 6JG	B1	1900 – 1919
Former Model Primary School Catherine Street Newry Co Down BT35 6JG	B2	1840 – 1859
7 Corry’s Square Newry Co Down BT35 6AW	B2	1820 – 1839
8 Corry’s Square Newry Co Down BT35 6AW	B2	1820 – 1839
1 Corry’s Square Newry Co Down BT35 6AW	Record Only	1800 – 1819
2 Corry’s Square Newry Co Down BT35 6AW	Record Only	1800 – 1819
10 Canal Street Newry Co Down BT35 6JB	B1	1820 – 1839
The Yews 76a-76h Canal Street Newry Co Down BT35 6DX	B2	1820 – 1839
9 Corry’s Square Newry Co Down BT35 6AW	Record Only	1820 – 1839
3 Corry’s Square Newry Co Down BT35 6AW	Record Only	1860 – 1879
4 Corry’s Square Newry Co Down BT35 6AW	Record Only	1860 – 1879
5 Corry’s Square Newry Co Down BT35 6AW	Record Only	1860 – 1879
6 Corry’s Square Newry Co Down BT35 6AW	Record Only	1860 – 1879
33 Patrick St Newry Co Down	Record Only	1820 – 1839
Railway Bridge Carnagat Rd Newry Co Armagh	B2	1840 – 1859
Wan-Ho Chinese Takeaway 10 Merchants Quay Newry Co Down BT35 6AH	Record Only	1800 – 1819
10 Edward Street Newry Co Down BT35 6AN	B2	1780 – 1799
Edward Street House 12 Edward Street Newry Co Down BT35 6AN	Record Only	1820 – 1839
15B Merchant's Quay Newry Co Down BT35 6AH	B2	1820 – 1839
47 Merchants Quay Newry Co Down BT35 8HE	B2	1840 – 1859
St Catherine’s (RC) Church Dominic Street Newry Co Down	B+	1860 – 1879
St. Catherine’s Priory Dominic Street Newry Co Down	B2	1880 – 1899
South Down Dental Clinic 29 Dominic Street Newry Co Down BT35 8BN	Record Only	1840 – 1859
31 Dominic Street Newry Co Down BT35 8BN	B2	1840 – 1859
Queen Street House 53 Dominic Street Newry Co Down BT35 8BN	B1	1860 – 1879
61 Dominic Street Newry Co Down BT35 8BW	Record Only	1820 – 1839
65 Bridge Street Newry Co Down BT35 8AF	Record Only	1800 – 1819
Railway Station Edward St Newry Co Down BT35 6AN	Record Only	1840 – 1859
St. Brigid’s RC Church Main Avenue Newry Co Down BT35 6HE	Record Only	1960 – 1979
1-7 Helen’s Terrace Orior Road Newry Co Down BT35 6EN	Record Only	1880 – 1899
20 Canal Street Newry Co Down BT35 6JB	Record Only	1820 – 1839
22 Canal Street Newry Co Down BT35 6JB	Record Only	1820 – 1839
24 Canal Street Newry Co Down BT35 6JB	Record Only	1820 – 1839
26 Canal Street Newry Co Down BT35 6JB	Record Only	1820 – 1839
28 Canal Street Newry Co Down BT35 6JF	Record Only	1820 – 1839
Lisdrum House Chequer Hill Armagh Road Newry Co Down BT35 6DV	Record Only	1820 – 1839
40 Canal Street Newry Co Down BT35 6JF	Record Only	1860 – 1879
42 Canal Street Newry Co Down BT35 6JF	Record Only	1860 – 1879
44 Canal Street Newry Co Down BT35 6JF	Record Only	1820 – 1839
46 Canal Street Newry Co Down BT35 6JF	Record Only	1820 – 1839
48 Canal Street Newry Co Down BT35 6JF	Record Only	1820 – 1839
50 Canal Street Newry Co Down BT35 6JF	Record Only	1820 – 1839
St Joseph’s Convent Primary School Edward Street Newry Co Down BT35 6AN	Record Only	1920 – 1939
1B Upper Edward Street Newry Co Down BT35 6AX	Record Only	1860 – 1879
12 Canal Street Newry Co Down BT35 6JB	Record Only	1860 – 1879
Daisy Hill Hospital Hospital Rd Newry Co Down	Record Only	1940 – 1959
Hillside Terrace Doran’s Hill Newry Co Down	Record Only	1900 – 1919
Boundary Post in Kiln St Newry Co Down	Record Only	1860 – 1879
Non-subscribing Manse Monaghan Row Newry Co Down	Record Only	1860 – 1879
22 Edward Street Newry Co Down BT35 6AN	Record Only	1840 – 1859
16 Merchant's Quay Newry Co Down BT35 6AH	Record Only	1820 – 1839
28-30 Monaghan Street Newry Co Down BT35 6BB	Record Only	1840 – 1859
5 Monaghan Street Newry Co Down BT34 6BB	Record Only	1900 – 1919
Stewart's Wine Barrel 1 Monaghan Street Newry Co Down BT35 6BB	Record Only	1860 – 1879
18 Edward Street Newry Co Down BT35 6AN	Record Only	1900 – 1919
19-27 Lower Catherine Street Newry Co Down BT35 6BE	Record Only	1880 – 1899
1-17 Lower Catherine Street Newry Co Down BT35 6BE	Record Only	1860 – 1879
38 & 39 Merchant's Quay Newry Co Down BT35 8HF	Record Only	1840 – 1859
Hogg's Furnishing Centre Ltd 34 Merchant's Quay Newry Co Down BT35 8HF	Record Only	1820 – 1839
Rear of Hogg's Furnishing Centre 34 Merchant's Quay Newry BT35 8HF	Record Only	1860 – 1879
Armaghdown Bar 19 Monaghan Street Newry Co Down BT35 6BB	Record Only	1880 – 1899
19a & c Monaghan Street Newry Co. Down BT35 6BB	Record Only	1880 – 1899
1-17 Caulfield Place Newry Co Down BT35 6AS	Record Only	1820 – 1839
36b & 37 Merchant's Quay Newry Co Down BT35 8HF	Record Only	1860 – 1879
Rear of 36b Merchants Quay Newry Co Down BT35 8HF	Record Only	1860 – 1879
Ballybot House 28 Corn Market Newry Co Down BT35 8BG	Record Only	1860 – 1879
A.M. Rentals and M.Y. Fashions Cornmarket Newry Co Down BT35 8BG	Record Only	1860 – 1879
50-54 Dominic Street Newry Co Down BT35 8BW	Record Only	1820 – 1839
55-59 Dominic Street Newry Co Down BT35 8BW	Record Only	1860 – 1879
27a Dominic Street Newry Co Down BT35 8BN	Record Only	1880 – 1899
27b Dominic Street Newry Co Down BT35 8BN	Record Only	1880 – 1899
Remains of Bridge Butter Crane Quay Newry Co Down	Record Only	1860 – 1879
Boundary Post near 1 Hillside Terrace Doran’s Hill Newry Co Down BT35 8EL	B2	1860 – 1879

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About this profile

What is a ward?

A ward is the smallest electoral and statistical geography used by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA). The boundaries used here are the 2014 NISRA / OSNI Wards (462 across Northern Ireland), each typically covering 1-700 km² and a population of a few thousand. Wards do not align with parishes, townlands, or any historic administrative unit — they are a modern statistical convenience, used here only as a fixed spatial frame within which to summarise heritage records.

What counts as a site?

Three distinct heritage record types are reported separately, not combined: (1) Historic Sites — entries in the Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record (NISMR), the inventory of recorded archaeological sites and findspots, dated from prehistoric to early-modern; (2) Scheduled Monuments — sites legally protected under the Historic Monuments and Archaeological Objects (NI) Order 1995 and maintained by the Historic Environment Division (HED); (3) Listed Buildings — buildings of architectural or historic interest protected under the Planning Act (NI) 2011 and graded A, B+, B1, B2, or Record-Only by HED. A site appearing in more than one register is counted in each register independently.

Editorial principles

These ward profiles describe evidence, not history. They report what is recorded, not what occurred. Where the data is ambiguous, we say so. We do not infer historical processes — population movements, settlement expansion, periods of decline — from patterns in the record. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence: in Northern Ireland, where antiquarian survey was uneven and modern excavation is geographically biased, a gap in the record almost always reflects the limits of recording rather than a genuine historical absence. We mark such gaps explicitly where they appear in the data.

Limits of coverage and known caveats

Several caveats apply to every ward profile: (1) NISMR coverage is uneven across NI — some areas (notably parts of the south-east and the Belfast urban fringe) have been more intensively surveyed than others, so a low recorded site count does not reliably indicate a low past density of activity; (2) period attributions in NISMR are often 'Unknown', and chronological breakdowns reported here reflect only the dated subset; (3) placename classification depends on the Irish-language form (name_ga), which is recorded for approximately 50% of NI placenames in the combined sources, so ecclesiastical and pre-Christian counts may be understated where anglicised forms remain unparsed; (4) terrain percentile ranks compare each ward only to the other 461 NI wards; they are not absolute thresholds. For absence-dominant land cover categories (wetland, water, cropland), percentile ranks are suppressed below 1% raw value, since the ranking of zero-value wards is not meaningful.

Data sources (11)

Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record (NISMR)
Historic sites — counts, types, periods, coordinates

Historic Environment Division (HED), Department for Communities · Licence: Crown copyright; data published for public viewing
https://www.communities-ni.gov.uk/articles/nismr-public-mapviewer
HED Scheduled Monuments Dataset
Scheduled Monument records — names, types, scheduled areas, periods

Historic Environment Division (HED), Department for Communities · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
https://www.opendatani.gov.uk/@historic-environment-division/scheduled-monuments-northern-ireland
HED Historic Buildings Record
Listed buildings — addresses, grades, dates of construction

Historic Environment Division (HED), Department for Communities · Licence: Crown copyright; record published for public viewing
https://www.communities-ni.gov.uk/topics/historic-environment/listed-buildings
OSNI OS Open Names (Northern Ireland)
Placenames — settlement and topographic feature names

Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
https://www.opendatani.gov.uk/@ordnance-survey-of-northern-ireland/osni-open-data—50k-gazetteer
Logainm — Placenames Database of Ireland
Placenames — Irish-language (name_ga) forms, including NI townlands

Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, Dublin City University · Licence: Creative Commons CC BY 4.0
https://www.logainm.ie/
GeoNames
Placenames — supplementary settlement and feature names

GeoNames · Licence: Creative Commons CC BY 4.0
https://www.geonames.org/
Census 2021 (Northern Ireland)
Population — total residents, households, average household size

Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
https://www.nisra.gov.uk/statistics/2021-census
OSNI Open Data — Largescale Boundaries
Ward and Local Government District boundaries

Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
https://www.opendatani.gov.uk/@ordnance-survey-of-northern-ireland/osni-open-data-largescale-boundaries-wards-2012
Copernicus GLO-30 DEM
Terrain — elevation, slope, derived TWI

European Space Agency / Copernicus · Licence: Free and open access (Copernicus DEM data licence)
https://spacedata.copernicus.eu/collections/copernicus-digital-elevation-model
ESA WorldCover
Land cover — grassland, woodland, cropland, wetland, urban categories

European Space Agency · Licence: Creative Commons CC BY 4.0
https://esa-worldcover.org/
GSNI 1:250,000 Geology
Bedrock geology, superficial deposits

Geological Survey of Northern Ireland · Licence: Crown copyright; open access for public viewing
https://www.bgs.ac.uk/geological-data/maps/

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