GILFORD Heritage Profile

By Daniel Kirkpatrick | Compiled 2026-05-15 | N08000217

40 historic sites 4 scheduled monuments 148 listed buildings 6 archaeological periods

GILFORD covers 116.5 km² in Northern Ireland. With 40 historic sites and 4 scheduled monuments on record, the ward sits at the 91st percentile across all 462 NI wards for combined archaeological heritage. It also records 148 listed buildings (HED Historic Buildings Record), the 97th percentile for listed-building density across NI wards. Per 1,000 residents, this works out at 38.4 recorded sites — the 84th percentile across NI wards (a measure of heritage density relative to current population). Dated archaeological evidence runs from the Mesolithic through to the Modern period, spanning 6 archaeological periods, around the NI median for chronological depth.

GILFORD boundary detail

GILFORD 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

67th percentile

Scheduled monuments

66th percentile

148

Listed buildings

97th percentile

1.65

Sites per km²

Population context

Persons per km²

36th percentile

38.4

Sites per 1,000 residents

84th percentile

4,995

Total residents (2021)

The recorded heritage of GILFORD

Of the 40 historic sites recorded, the most common are Enclosure (13, 32% of historic sites), Rath (5), and Non-Antiquity (3). For Enclosures, this is the 79th percentile across NI wards that record this type. For Raths, this is the 41st percentile among NI wards that record this type. Across the ward's 116.5 km², this gives a recorded density of 1.65 sites per km² (all heritage types combined).

Most common monument types

Type	Count	Description
Enclosure	13	—
Rath	5	—
Non-antiquity	3	—

Chronological distribution

Mesolithic

Iron Age

Early Medieval

Medieval

Post Medieval

Modern

Unknown

Terrain and environment

Mean elevation of 61m sits around the NI median (50th percentile), with a maximum of 166m giving the ward meaningful vertical relief. Mean slope is 5.1° (73th percentile across NI), giving moderately undulating terrain. The Topographic Wetness Index of 9.9 (23th NI percentile) indicates moderate drainage, balanced between upland shedding and lowland accumulation. The land-cover mosaic combines improved grassland (68%), woodland (16%), and arable farmland (13%), giving a mixed agricultural and semi-natural landscape.

Terrain measurements

Mean elevation61 m 50th pct

Max elevation166.2 m 67th pct

Mean slope5.1° 74th pct

Wetness index (TWI)9.93 24th pct

Grassland68.2% 62nd pct

Woodland15.8% 44th pct

Cropland13.4% 95th pct

Urban land2.3% 30th pct

Where this ward sits in NI

Elevation

50th

Slope

74th

Drainage

24th

Grassland

62nd

Woodland

44th

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 moderately varied (complexity index 0.46), with two or three geological units present within the ward boundary.

Bedrock eraPalaeozoic

Bedrock periodSilurian

Surface depositsTill

Peat coverage0.0%

Bedrock complexity0.46

Placename evidence

The combined OSNI, Logainm NI, and GeoNames sources record 27 placenames for this ward. Of those, 2 fall into the pre-Christian defensive category (rath-, dún-, lios-, caiseal-) — the only diagnostic heritage stratum identified beyond the generic Gaelic landscape substrate. Note: Irish-language (name_ga) forms are recorded for roughly half of NI placenames in the combined sources, so anglicised forms whose Irish original could belong to multiple categories may be misclassified.

Placename categories

Pre-Christian Defensive (rath-, dun-, lis-)2 names

Scheduled monuments in GILFORD

Scheduled monuments are sites legally protected under the Historic Monuments and Archaeological Objects (Northern Ireland) Order 1995, designated by the Historic Environment Division (HED).

Monument	Type	Period
NEWRY CANAL REACH 13	Newry Canal Reach 13	Post-Medieval
WWII PILLBOX	Wwii Pillbox	Modern
WWII PILLBOX	Wwii Pillbox	Modern
WWII PILLBOX	Wwii Pillbox	Modern

Recorded historic sites

Name	Period	Type
ENCLOSURE	Iron Age	Unknown
ENCLOSURE	Iron Age	Unknown
ENCLOSURE	Iron Age	Unknown
ENCLOSURE	Iron Age	Unknown
ENCLOSURE	Iron Age	Unknown
ENCLOSURE	Iron Age	Unknown
ENCLOSURE	Iron Age	Unknown
ENCLOSURE	Iron Age	Unknown
ENCLOSURE	Iron Age	Unknown
ENCLOSURE	Iron Age	Unknown
ENCLOSURE	Iron Age	Unknown
ENCLOSURE	Iron Age	Unknown
ENCLOSURE	Iron Age	Unknown
ENCLOSURE – oval rath?	Iron Age	Defence
ENCLOSURE – tree ring?	Iron Age	Unknown
ENCLOSURE or RATH – Drummiller Fort	Iron Age	Defence
ENCLOSURE: LOUGHAN'S MOUND	Iron Age	Unknown
ENCLOSURE?	Iron Age	Unknown
ENCLOSURE?	Iron Age	Unknown
Enclosure/ Rath (Possible)	Iron Age	Defence
Enclosure/ Rath (Possible)	Iron Age	Defence
FINDSPOT of SILVER PENNY, 1248-50	Medieval	Unknown
Historic Settlement Gilford	Post-Medieval	Transport
Historic Settlement Lawrencetown	Post-Medieval	Domestic
MOUND	Unknown	Unknown
MULTIPERIOD CHURCH & GRAVEYARD with ENCLOSURE	Early Medieval	Ritual/Funerary
NON-ANTIQUITY	Unknown	Unknown
NON-ANTIQUITY	Unknown	Unknown
NON-ANTIQUITY	Unknown	Unknown
RATH	Early Medieval	Defence
RATH	Early Medieval	Defence
RATH	Early Medieval	Defence
RATH	Early Medieval	Defence
RATH	Early Medieval	Defence
RATH, reused as TREE RING	Early Medieval	Defence
STANDING STONE	Mesolithic	Ritual/Funerary
URN BURIAL	Mesolithic	Ritual/Funerary
WWII PILLBOX – DHP no.231	Modern	Defence
WWII PILLBOX – DHP no.232	Modern	Defence
WWII PILLBOX – DHP no.42	Modern	Defence

Listed buildings in GILFORD

Address / Name	Grade	Period
Mount Pleasant 38 Banbridge Road Drumaran Gilford CRAIGAVON BT63 6DJ	B+	1780 – 1799
Gilford Castle Stableyard 5 Banbridge Road Gilford CRAIGAVON Co Down BT63 6DJ	B1	1860 – 1879
St John's Roman Catholic Church Castle Hill Gilford Co Down BT63 6HH	B1	1840 – 1859
St. Paul's Church of Ireland High Street Gilford Co Down BT63 6HY	B1	1860 – 1879
Former Gate Lodge 1 Ann Street Gilford Craigavon Co Down BT63 6HX	B2	1820 – 1839
Moyallon House 136 Stramore Road Moyallen Portadown CRAIGAVON BT63 5JZ	B+	1780 – 1799
Outbuildings Moyallon House 136 Stramore Road Moyallen Portadown CRAIGAVON BT63 5JZ	B1	1800 – 1819
Gate Lodge Moyallon House 132 Stramore Road Moyallen Portadown CRAIGAVON BT63 5JZ	B2	1860 – 1879
Elmfield 23 Moyallan Road Ballymacanallen Portadown CRAIGAVON County Down BT63 5NH	B1	1860 – 1879
Stramore House 82-86 Stramore Road Gilford CRAIGAVON County Down BT63 6HN	B+	1780 – 1799
Tower Stramore House 82-86 Stramore Road Gilford CRAIGAVON Co Down BT63 6HN	B1	1800 – 1819
The Grange Moyallen Portadown Co Armagh BT63 5JZ	B1	1800 – 1819
St Patrick and St Colman's Church The Point Road Banbridge Craigavon Co. Down BT63 6EA	B2	1820 – 1839
All Saint's Parish Church 36 Tullylish Road Tullylish Craigavon Co. Down BT63 6DP	B1	1860 – 1879
Former Sexton’s House All Saint's Parish Church 35 Tullylish Road Tullylish Craigavon Co. Down BT63 6DP	B2	1860 – 1879
25 Drumaran Road Gilford Craigavon Co. Down BT63 6DB	B1	1820 – 1839
Whitefield College of the Bible 117 Banbridge Road Gilford Co Down BT63 6DL	B2	1860 – 1879
Gate Screen Gilford Castle 5 Banbridge Road Gilford Co Down BT63 6DJ	B1	1900 – 1919
Gilford Bridge Bridge Street Gilford Craigavon Co Down BT63	B1	1820 – 1839
55 Dunbarton Street Gilford CRAIGAVON Co Down BT63 6HJ	B2	1860 – 1879
Dunbarton Street Presbyterian Church 64 Dunbarton Street Gilford Co Down BT63 6HJ	B1	1840 – 1859
Gate Lodge Moyallon House 68 Moyallen Road Moyallen Portadown CRAIGAVON BT63 5JY	B2	1860 – 1879
Woodbank 20 Moyallan Road CRAIGAVON Co Down BT63 5JX	B1	1780 – 1799
Lodge 21 Moyallan Road Ballymacanallen Portadown CRAIGAVON County Down BT63 5NH	B2	1860 – 1879
White Bridge Stramore Road Gilford Craigavon Co Armagh BT63	B2	1860 – 1879
The Laurels 79 Moyallan Road Moyallen Portadown CRAIGAVON Co Down BT63 5JY	B1	1860 – 1879
Lawrencetown Bridge (aka The Point Bridge) Point Road Gilford Co Down BT63	B2	1800 – 1819
Banford House 56 Banbridge Road Gilford Craigavon Co Down BT63 6DJ	B+	1780 – 1799
Tullylish Bridge Tullylish Road Gilford Craigavon Co Armagh BT63	B1	1800 – 1819
Chimney at former Banford Bleach Works adjacent to 59 Banbridge Rd Gilford Co Down BT63 6DL	B2	1860 – 1879
Huntly House 107 Huntly Road Drumnagally Banbridge County Down BT32 3BS	B+	1840 – 1859
Lodge, Woodbank, 18 Moyallan Road, Portadown, Co Down, BT63 5JX	B2	1840 – 1859
36 Ballynagarrick Road Portadown Co. Armagh BT63 5NR	B1	1860 – 1879
Gilford Castle 5 Banbridge Road Gilford CRAIGAVON Co Down BT63 6DJ	B+	1860 – 1879
Walled Garden Gilford Castle Estate 5 Banbridge Road Gilford Co Down BT63 6DJ	B1	1860 – 1879
Belfast Roof Truss Shed Gilford Castle Estate 5 Banbridge Road Gilford Co Down BT63 6DJ	B2	1900 – 1919
51 Dunbarton Street Gilford CRAIGAVON Co Down BT63 6HJ	B2	1860 – 1879
53 Dunbarton Street Gilford CRAIGAVON Co Down BT63 6HJ	B2	1860 – 1879
Dunbarton House 70 Dunbarton Street Loughans Gilford CRAIGAVON BT63 6HJ	B1	1840 – 1859
Conservatory Dunbarton House 70 Dunbarton Street Loughans Gilford CRAIGAVON BT63 6HJ	B2	1880 – 1899
WWII Shelter Dunbarton House 70 Dunbarton Street Loughans Gilford CRAIGAVON BT63 6HJ	B2	1940 – 1959
Dunbarton Lodge 52 Dunbarton Street Loughans Gilford CRAIGAVON Co Down BT63 6HJ	B2	1840 – 1859
Lodge 68 Dunbarton Street Loughans Gilford CRAIGAVON BT63 6HJ	B2	1840 – 1859
Dunbarton 59 Dunbarton Street Gilford CRAIGAVON Co Down BT63 6HJ	B2	1840 – 1859
Main Block Gilford Mill Ann Street- Gilford Craigavon Co Down BT63 6HX	B+	1820 – 1839
Central Block Gilford Mill Ann Street Gilford Craigavon Co Down BT63 6HX	B+	1820 – 1839
Flax Store and Weigh Room Gilford Mill Ann Street Gilford Craigavon Co Down BT63 6HX	B+	1820 – 1839
Engine House Gilford Mill Ann Street Gilford Craigavon Co Down BT63 6HX	B1	1820 – 1839
Chimney Gilford Mill Ann Street Gilford Craigavon Co Down BT63 6HX	B1	1820 – 1839
2 Ann Street Gilford Craigavon Co Down BT63 6HX	B2	1840 – 1859
3 Ann Street Gilford Craigavon Co Down BT63 6HX	B2	1840 – 1859
4 Ann Street Gilford Craigavon Co Down BT63 6HX	B2	1840 – 1859
5 Ann Street Gilford Craigavon Co Down BT63 6HX	B2	1840 – 1859
6 Ann Street Gilford Craigavon Co Down BT63 6HX	B2	1840 – 1859
7 Ann Street Gilford Craigavon Co Down BT63 6HX	B2	1840 – 1859
8 Ann Street Gilford CRAIGAVON Co Down BT63 6HX	B1	1840 – 1859
10 Ann Street Gilford Craigavon County Down BT63 6HX	Record Only	1840 – 1859
12 Ann Street Gilford Craigavon County Down BT63 6HX	Record Only	1840 – 1859
14 Ann Street Gilford Craigavon County Down BT63 6HX	Record Only	1840 – 1859
16 Ann Street Gilford Craigavon County Down BT63 6HX	Record Only	1840 – 1859
18 Ann Street Gilford Craigavon County Down BT63 6HX	Record Only	1840 – 1859
20 Ann Street Gilford Craigavon County Down BT63 6HX	Record Only	1840 – 1859
22 Ann Street Gilford Craigavon County Down BT63 6HX	Record Only	1840 – 1859
24 Ann Street Gilford Craigavon County Down BT63 6HX	Record Only	1840 – 1859
26 Ann Street Gilford Craigavon County Down BT63 6HX	Record Only	1840 – 1859
MOYALLEN FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, 117 STRAMORE ROAD GILFORD CO.DOWN BT63 6HN	A	—
2 Bannview Terrace Gilford CRAIGAVON County Down BT63 6HX	Record Only	1860 – 1879
4 Bannview Terrace Gilford CRAIGAVON County Down BT63 6HX	Record Only	1860 – 1879
6 Bannview Terrace Gilford CRAIGAVON County Down BT63 6HX	Record Only	1860 – 1879
8 Bannview Terrace Gilford CRAIGAVON County Down BT63 6HX	Record Only	1860 – 1879
Bannvale House 10 Moyallen Road Gilford Craigavon Co Down BT63 5JX	B2	1800 – 1819
Lodge 11 Moyallan Road Gilford PORTADOWN Co Down BT63 5JX	B2	1840 – 1859
Former Lodge 2 Woodlands Ballymacanallen Gilford CRAIGAVON Co Down BT63 6JJ	B2	1880 – 1899
PARISH PUMP STRAMORE ROAD GILFORD CO.DOWN	B1	1900 – 1919
Pump opposite 10 Park Lane Gilford Co. Down	B2	1920 – 1939
Pump Next to 23 Park Lane Gilford Co. Down`	B2	1900 – 1919
Pump No. 2 Park Lane Gilford Co. Down	B1	1900 – 1919
7 Hazel Bank Road Gilford Craigavon BT63 6DS	B1	1820 – 1839
20 Drumnascamph Road Banbridge CRAIGAVON County Down BT63 6DU	B2	1860 – 1879
WATCH TOWER TULLYLISH GILFORD CO.DOWN	B2	—
Former Office & Stores Banford Bleach Works 59A Banbridge Rd Gilford Co Down BT63 6DL	B2	1860 – 1879
Tullylish Pottery 59A Banbridge Rd Gilford Co Down BT63 6DL	B2	1860 – 1879
Glenbanna House 14 The Point Road Gilford Craigavon Co. Down BT63 6EA	B2	1840 – 1859
Water Blow Off Tower Rosevale Rd Ballyvarley Banbridge Co Down BT32	B2	1900 – 1919
Watch House, Springvale Road, Tullylish, Banbridge	B2	1840 – 1859
East Lodge 11 Banbridge Road Gilford Castle Estate Gilford CRAIGAVON Co Down BT63 6DJ	Record Only	1860 – 1879
Castle Street Gilford Banbridge Co Down BT63 6JS	Record Only	—
War Memorial Castle Street Gilford Banbridge Co Down BT63 6HG	Record Only	—
Bridge Street Gilford Banbridge Co Down BT63 6HG	Record Only	—
6-18 Wall Road Gilford Banbridge Co Down BT63 6WR	Record Only	—
Gilford Library 37 Mill Street Gilford Co Down BT63 6HY	Record Only	1820 – 1839
'Centre Feature' of Traffic Island Castle Street Gilford Banbridge Co Down	Record Only	—
Castle Hill Gilford Banbridge Co Down BT63 6HH	Record Only	—
Dunbarton Street Gilford Banbridge Co Down	Record Only	—
9 Ann Street Gilford Banbridge BT63 6HX	Record Only	1840 – 1859
11 Ann Street Gilford Craigavon County Down BT63 6HX	Record Only	1840 – 1859
13 Ann Street Gilford Craigavon County Down BT63 6HX	Record Only	1840 – 1859
15 Ann Street Gilford Craigavon County Down BT63 6HX	Record Only	1840 – 1859
17 Ann Street Gilford Craigavon County Down BT63 6HX	Record Only	1840 – 1859
19 Ann Street Gilford Craigavon County Down BT63 6HX	Record Only	1840 – 1859
21 Ann Street Gilford Craigavon County Down BT63 6HX	Record Only	1840 – 1859
23 Ann Street Gilford Craigavon County Down BT63 6HX	Record Only	1840 – 1859
25 Ann Street Gilford Craigavon County Down BT63 6HX	Record Only	1840 – 1859
59-129 Hill Street Gilford Banbridge Co Down	Record Only	—
Sandyrow 8,9,10 Lurgan Road Ballymacanallen Banbridge Co Down BT63 6AP	Record Only	—
1,2 & 3 Prospect Terrace Lurgan Road Ballmacanallen Banbridge Co Down BT63 6AP	Record Only	—
1 Bannview Terrace Gilford CRAIGAVON Co Down BT63 6HX	Record Only	1860 – 1879
3 Bannview Terrace Gilford CRAIGAVON County Down BT63 6HX	Record Only	1860 – 1879
5 Bannview Terrace Gilford CRAIGAVON County Down BT63 6HX	Record Only	1860 – 1879
7 Bannview Terrace Gilford CRAIGAVON County Down BT63 6HX	Record Only	1860 – 1879
1, 2-7 Connors Row Lurgan Road Ballymacanallen Banbridge Co Down BT63 6AP	Record Only	—
31 Plantation Road Ballymacallen Gilford Banbridge Co Down BT63 6EA	Record Only	—
Gilford Free Presbyterian Church 28 Dunbarton Street Loughans Gilford Co Down BT63 6HJ	Record Only	1840 – 1859
Dunbarton Street Gilford Banbrdige Co Down BT63	Record Only	—
Moyallon Primary School 103 Moyallon Road Portadown Co Down BT63 5JY	Record Only	—
16 Loughbrickland Road Gilford Banbridge Co Down BT63 6BJ	Record Only	—
Pump 35 Park Lane Gilford Co Down	Record Only	1920 – 1939
Pump opposite 25b Park Lane Gilford Co. Down	Record Only	1920 – 1939
Pump opposite 20 Park Lane Gilford Co Down	Record Only	1920 – 1939
Fountain opposite RC Church Loughans Road Gilford Co Down	Record Only	1900 – 1919
Pump No. 1 Park Lane Gilford Co. Down	Record Only	1900 – 1919
Gilford Primary School 41 Castle Hill Gilford Co Down BT63 6HH	Record Only	1920 – 1939
15 Ballymacanallen Road Gilford Craigavon Co Down BT63 6AD	Record Only	1840 – 1859
17 Ballymacanallen Road Gilford Craigavon BT63 6AD	Record Only	1820 – 1839
4 Drumaran Road Gilford CRAIGAVON Co Down BT63 6DP	Record Only	1820 – 1839
Former RUC Station Mill Street Gilford Co Down BT63 6HG	Record Only	1940 – 1959
38 Mill Street Gilford Craigavon Co Down BT63 6HQ	Record Only	1860 – 1879
250-288 Banbridge Road Banbridge Co Down BT63 6DW	Record Only	—
Presbyterian Church 234 Banbridge Road Banbridge Co Down BT62	Record Only	—
228 Banbridge Road Banbridge Co Down BT63 6DW	Record Only	—
THE POINT HOUSE POINT ROAD KNOCKNAGORE GILFORD CO.DOWN	Record Only	—
Millpark House 27 Springvale Road Tullylish Lawrencetown County Down BT63 6EB	Record Only	1780 – 1799
Black Castle 54 Banbridge Road Banbridge Co Down BT66 7QD	Record Only	—
46 Loughbrickland Road Gilford Banbridge Co Down BT63 6BN	Record Only	—
14 Drumaran Road Gilford Banbridge Road Co Down BT63 6DS	Record Only	—
Kernan Road Gilford Co Down	Record Only	—
Hall Mill House 136 Banbridge Road Gilford Co Down BT63 6DZ	Record Only	—
Memorial Orange Hall 24 Springvale Road Banbridge County Down BT63 6EB	Record Only	1900 – 1919
Major Uprichard Memorial Orange Hall 45 Banbridge Road Tullylish Co Down BT32 3YB	Record Only	1820 – 1839
173 Scarva Road Ballyvarley Banbridge Co Down BT32 3QL	Record Only	—
29-31 Glenloughan Road Scarva Craigavon Co Down BT63 6NQ	Record Only	1820 – 1839
House Listullyard Road Edenderry BANBRIDGE Co Down BT32 3UN	Record Only	—
Former National School, St John's Roman Catholic Church, Castle Hill, Gilford, Co Down	B2	1860 – 1879
Tower, All Saint's Parish Church, 36 Tullylish Road, Tullylish, Co Down	B2	—
House 95m East of 21 Drummiller Lane, Gilford County Down BT63 6BS	Record Only	1820 – 1839
Outbuildings Dunbarton House 70 Dunbarton Street Loughans Gilford Co Down BT63 6HJ	B2	1840 – 1859
Milestone Near 36 Loughbrickland Road Gilford Co.Down BT32 5BL	B2	1760 – 1779
Milestone Near 67 Loughbrickland Road Gilford Co.Down BT32 5BN	B2	1760 – 1779

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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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