ST. PATRICK'S Heritage Profile - Daniel Kirkpatrick

By Daniel Kirkpatrick | Compiled 2026-05-05 | N08001037

4 historic sites 1 scheduled monuments 128 listed buildings 4 archaeological periods

ST. PATRICK'S covers 4.9 km² in Northern Ireland. With 4 historic sites and 1 scheduled monument on record, the ward sits at the 80th percentile across all 462 NI wards for combined archaeological heritage. It also records 128 listed buildings (HED Historic Buildings Record), the 97th percentile for listed-building density across NI wards. Per 1,000 residents, this works out at 29.2 recorded sites — the 75th percentile across NI wards (a measure of heritage density relative to current population). Dated archaeological evidence runs from the Mesolithic through to the Medieval period, spanning 4 archaeological periods, around the NI median for chronological depth.

ST. PATRICK'S boundary detail

ST. PATRICK'S 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

31st percentile

Scheduled monuments

41st percentile

128

Listed buildings

97th percentile

27.36

Sites per km²

Population context

938

Persons per km²

79th percentile

29.2

Sites per 1,000 residents

75th percentile

4,557

Total residents (2021)

The recorded heritage of ST. PATRICK'S

Of the 4 historic sites recorded, the most common are Enclosure (1, 25% of historic sites), Post-Medieval Church & Graveyard: St. Patrick'S (1), and Souterrain? (1). For Enclosures, this is the 0th percentile across NI wards that record this type. For Post-Medieval Church & Graveyard: St. Patrick'Ss, this is the 0th percentile across NI wards that record this type. Across the ward's 4.9 km², this gives a recorded density of 27.14 sites per km² (all heritage types combined).

Most common monument types

Type	Count	Description
Enclosure	1	—
Post-medieval Church & Graveyard: St. Patrick's	1	—
Souterrain?	1	—

Chronological distribution

Mesolithic

Iron Age

Early Medieval

Medieval

Terrain and environment

Mean elevation of 36m sits around the NI median (27th percentile), reaching 74m at the highest point. Mean slope is 5.1° (73th percentile across NI), giving moderately undulating terrain. The Topographic Wetness Index of 9.9 (24th NI percentile) indicates moderate drainage, balanced between upland shedding and lowland accumulation. The land-cover mosaic combines urban land (54%), woodland (31%), and improved grassland (15%), giving a mixed agricultural and semi-natural landscape.

Terrain measurements

Mean elevation35.5 m 28th pct

Max elevation73.7 m 29th pct

Mean slope5.1° 73rd pct

Wetness index (TWI)9.93 25th pct

Grassland15.4% 14th pct

Woodland31.0% 82nd pct

Urban land53.5% 87th pct

Where this ward sits in NI

Elevation

28th

Slope

73rd

Drainage

25th

Grassland

14th

Woodland

82nd

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

Just two placenames are recorded for this ward in the combined OSNI, Logainm NI, and GeoNames sources. That is too few to support any meaningful characterisation of the linguistic heritage layers — diagnostic categories such as ecclesiastical, defensive, or Plantation-era names need a larger sample to be reliably distinguished from the generic Gaelic landscape vocabulary that is common throughout Ireland.

Scheduled monuments in ST. PATRICK'S

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 1B	Newry Canal Reach 1B	Post-Medieval

Recorded historic sites

Name	Period	Type
ENCLOSURE	Iron Age	Unknown
POST-MEDIEVAL CHURCH & GRAVEYARD: ST. PATRICK'S	Medieval	Ritual/Funerary
PREHISTORIC OCCUPATION SITE	Mesolithic	Unknown
SOUTERRAIN?	Early Medieval	Defence

Listed buildings in ST. PATRICK'S

Address / Name	Grade	Period
Town Hall Bank Parade Newry Co Down BT35 6HP	B1	1880 – 1899
Armagh Down Bridge Newry Co Down BT34	B+	1880 – 1899
Courthouse Trevor Hill Newry Co Down BT34 1DN	Record Only	1840 – 1859
Warehouse Basin Quay Newry Co Down BT35 6HX	B2	1860 – 1879
Riverside Reformed Presbyterian Church Basin Walk Newry Co Down BT35 6HU	B2	1860 – 1879
11 Sugar Island Newry Co Down BT35 6HT	B1	1780 – 1799
St Mary’s Parish Hall Downshire Road Newry Co Down BT34 1DX	Record Only	1840 – 1859
Downshire Road Presbyterian Church Downshire Road Newry Co Down BT34 1DX	B1	1840 – 1859
1 Downshire Road (1 Sandy's Place) Newry Co Down BT34 1ED	B+	1820 – 1839
3 Downshire Road (2 Sandy's Place) Newry Co Down BT34 1ED	B+	1820 – 1839
Corry Memorial Downshire Road Newry Co Down	B1	1820 – 1839
First Newry Presbyterian Church Sandy's Street Newry Co Down BT34 1EN	B1	1820 – 1839
METHODIST CHURCH, GATES AND RAILINGS SANDY'S ST. NEWRY CO.DOWN See General Comments	B1	1840 – 1859
Methodist Manse 2 Sandy's Street	Record Only	1860 – 1879
1 Windsor Hill Newry Co Down BT34 1ER	B2	1840 – 1859
2 Windsor Hill Newry Co Down BT34 1ER	B2	1820 – 1839
3 Windsor Hill Newry Co Down BT34 1ER	B1	1820 – 1839
4 Windsor Hill Newry Co Down BT34 1ER	B2	1820 – 1839
5 Windsor Hill Newry Co Down BT34 1ER	B2	1820 – 1839
1 Arthur Street Newry Co Down BT34 1HR	B1	1800 – 1819
5 Downshire Place Newry Co Down BT34 1DZ	B+	1820 – 1839
7 Downshire Place Newry Co Down BT34 1DZ	B+	1820 – 1839
9 Downshire Place Newry Co Down BT34 1DZ	B+	1820 – 1839
Newry Baptist Church 11 Downshire Place Newry Co Down BT34 1DZ	B+	1820 – 1839
Belmont Terrace 18 & 18a Downshire Road Newry Co Down BT34 1EE	B1	1820 – 1839
St Patrick’s Parish Hall 33 Downshire Road Newry Co Down BT34 1EE	B2	1840 – 1859
45 Downshire Road Newry Co Down BT34 1EE	B+	1820 – 1839
47 Downshire Road Newry Co Down BT34 1EE	B+	1820 – 1839
49 Downshire Road Newry Co Down BT34 1EE	B+	1820 – 1839
Laurel Lodge 55 Downshire Road Newry Co Down BT34 1EE	B1	1800 – 1819
Cairn Hill 39 Rathfriland Road Newry Co Down BT34 1JZ	Record Only	1840 – 1859
Glebe House Windsor Avenue Newry Co Down BT34 1EQ	B2	1900 – 1919
10 Sandy's Street Newry See General Comments	B2	1860 – 1879
11 Sandy's Street Newry See General Comments	B2	1880 – 1899
12 Sandy's Street Newry See General Comments	B2	1880 – 1899
2-3 Sugarhouse Quay Newry Co Down BT35 6HZ	B2	1820 – 1839
St Patrick's Church (C of I) Church Street Newry Co Down BT34 2AH	B+	Pre 1600
Salvation Army Citadel Trevor Hill Newry Co Down BT34 1DN	B2	1800 – 1819
Bank of Ireland 12 Trevor Hill Newry Co Down BT34 1DN	B1	1820 – 1839
10 Trevor Hill Newry Co Down BT34 1DN	B1	1800 – 1819
11 Trevor Hill Newry Co Down BT34 1DN	B1	1820 – 1839
8 Trevor Hill Newry Co Down BT34 1DN	B1	1820 – 1839
9 Trevor Hill Newry Co Down BT34 1DN	B1	1820 – 1839
6 Trevor Hill Newry Co Down BT34 1DN	B2	1800 – 1819
7 Trevor Hill Newry Co Down BT34 1DN	B+	1800 – 1819
St. Colman's Hall Trevor Hill Newry Co Down BT34 1DN	B2	1860 – 1879
Building to right of St. Colman's Hall Trevor Hill Newry Co Down BT34 1DN	B2	1800 – 1819
former Northern Bank 2-3 Trevor Hill Newry Co Down BT34 1DN	B1	1920 – 1939
1 Trevor Hill Newry Co Down BT34 1DN	B2	1760 – 1779
Sugar Island Bridge Newry Co Down BT34	B1	1800 – 1819
Russian Trophy Bank Parade Newry Co Down BT34	B2	1860 – 1879
McCartan Brothers 2-4 Sugar Island Newry Co Down BT35 6HT	B2	1820 – 1839
9-10 The Mall Newry Co Down BT34 1BX	B1	1900 – 1919
86 Hill Street Newry Co Down BT34 1BT	Record Only	1800 – 1819
71 Hill Street Newry Co Down BT34 1DG	B2	1840 – 1859
73 Hill Street Newry Co Down BT34 1DG	B2	1840 – 1859
2 Upper Water Street (formerly 2 Abbey Way ) Newry Co Down BT34 1DJ	Record Only	1820 – 1839
4 Upper Water Street (formerly 4 Abbey Way) Newry Co Down BT34 1DJ	Record Only	1780 – 1799
5 Margaret Street Newry Co Down BT34 1DF	Record Only	1820 – 1839
90 Hill Street Newry Co Down BT34 1DG	B2	1820 – 1839
28 Upper Water Street (formerly 28 Abbey Way) Newry Co Down BT34 1DJ	Record Only	1820 – 1839
7 Sandys Street Newry Co Down BT34 1EN	Record Only	1860 – 1879
8 Sandys Street Newry Co Down BT34 1EN	Record Only	1860 – 1879
9 Sandys Street Newry Co Down BT34 1EN	B2	1860 – 1879
13 Sandys Street Newry Co Down BT34 1EN	Record Only	1860 – 1879
14 Sandys Street Newry Co Down BT34 1EN	Record Only	1860 – 1879
15 Sandys Street Newry Co Down BT34 1EN	Record Only	1860 – 1879
16 Sandys Street Newry Co Down BT34 1EN	Record Only	1860 – 1879
19 Sandys Street Newry Co Down BT34 1EN	Record Only	1820 – 1839
20 Sandy's Street Newry Co Down BT34 1EN	Record Only	1820 – 1839
21 Sandy's Street Newry Co Down BT34 1EN	Record Only	1820 – 1839
22 Sandy's Street Newry Co Down BT34 1EN	Record Only	1820 – 1839
23 Sandy's Street Newry Co Down BT34 1EN	Record Only	1820 – 1839
24 Sandy's Street Newry Co Down BT34 1EN	Record Only	1820 – 1839
25 Sandy's Street Newry Co Down BT34 1EN	Record Only	1820 – 1839
26 Sandy's Street Newry Co Down BT34 1EN	Record Only	1820 – 1839
27 Sandy's Street Newry Co Down BT34 1EN	Record Only	1820 – 1839
17 Sandys Street Newry Co Down BT34 1EN	B2	1820 – 1839
18 Sandys Street, Newry, Co Down	B2	1800 – 1819
Needham Bridge, Newry, Co Down BT34	B1	1820 – 1839
8-10 Basin Walk Newry Co Down BT35 6HU	Record Only	1760 – 1779
5 Sugarhouse Quay Newry Co Down BT35 6HZ	Record Only	1780 – 1799
General Hospital Windsor Hill Newry Co Down	Record Only	1820 – 1839
North Lodge 53 Downshire Road Newry Co Down BT34 1EE	Record Only	1800 – 1819
South Lodge 51 Downshire Road Newry Co Down BT34 1EE	Record Only	1800 – 1819
Ardmore Hotel Belfast Road Newry Co Down	Record Only	1880 – 1899
Sign outside 3 Downshire Road (2 Sandy’s Place) Newry Co Down	Record Only	—
Warehouse to rear of 10 Basin Quay Newry Co Down BT35 6HX	Record Only	1860 – 1879
Former Power station Rear of 18 Downshire Road Newry Co Down BT34 1EE	Record Only	1900 – 1919
Tudor Lodge Downshire Road Newry Co Down BT34 1EE	Record Only	1820 – 1839
Autoglass 7 Sugarhouse Quay Newry Co Down BT35 6HZ	Record Only	1860 – 1879
41 Downshire Road Newry Co Down BT34 1EE	Record Only	1940 – 1959
43 Downshire Road Newry Co Down BT34 1EE	Record Only	1940 – 1959
15 Windsor Hill Newry Co Down BT34 1ER	Record Only	1880 – 1899
17 Windsor Hill Newry Co Down BT34 1ER	Record Only	1880 – 1899
19 Windsor Hill Newry Co Down BT34 1ER	Record Only	1880 – 1899
21 Windsor Hill Newry Co Down BT34 1ER	Record Only	1880 – 1899
5a Sandy's Place Downshire Road Newry Co Down BT34 1ED	Record Only	1880 – 1899
SEELB Multi-purpose Centre Downshire Road Newry Co Down BT34 1EE	Record Only	1880 – 1899
William Barre Memorial St Patrick's C of I Churchyard Church Street Newry Co Down BT34 2UA	Record Only	1860 – 1879
14 Trevor Hill Newry Co Down BT34 1DN	Record Only	1800 – 1819
War Memorial Bank Parade Newry Co Down BT34	Record Only	1920 – 1939
Arts Centre Bank Parade Newry Co Down BT34 1PG	Record Only	1980 – 1999
67 – 69 Hill Street Newry Co Down BT34 1DG	Record Only	1820 – 1839
83 Hill Street Newry Co Down BT34 1DG	Record Only	1800 – 1819
104-8 Hill Street Newry Co Down BT34 1BT	Record Only	1820 – 1839
26 Upper Water Street (formerly 26 Abbey Way) Newry Co Down BT34 1DJ	Record Only	1820 – 1839
8-10 Upper Water Street (formerly 8-10 Abbey Way) Newry Co Down BT34 1DJ	Record Only	1820 – 1839
89 Hill St Newry Co Down BT34 1DG	Record Only	1820 – 1839
Store at East End of Bank Parade Newry Co Down BT34 1PG	Record Only	1860 – 1879
1 Bank Parade Newry Co Down BT34 6HP	Record Only	1860 – 1879
1 Bagot Street Newry Co Down BT34 1EW	Record Only	1860 – 1879
5 Sandy's Street Newry Co Down BT34 1EN	Record Only	1860 – 1879
6 Sandys Street Newry Co Down BT34 1EN	Record Only	1860 – 1879
Underground Passage Heather Park Newry Co Down	Record Only	1780 – 1799
The Brass Monkey 16 Trevor Hill & 1-4 Sandy's Street Newry Co Down BT34 1EN	Record Only	1820 – 1839
24 Upper Water Street (formerly 24 Abbey Way) Newry Co Down BT34 1DJ	Record Only	1780 – 1799
18 A&B Upper Water Street (formerly 18 A&B Abbey Way) Newry Co Down BT34 1DJ	Record Only	1800 – 1819
20 Upper Water Street (formerly 20 Abbey Way) Newry Co Down BT34 1DJ	Record Only	1820 – 1839
22 Upper Water Street (formerly 22 Abbey Way) Newry Co Down BT34 1DJ	Record Only	1820 – 1839
The Bridge Inn 53 Upper Water Street (formerly 53 Abbey Way) Newry Co Down BT34 1DJ	Record Only	1820 – 1839
57 Upper Water Street (formerly 57 Abbey Way) Newry Co Down BT34 1DJ	Record Only	1780 – 1799
7 Kildare Street Newry Co Down BT34 1DQ	Record Only	1820 – 1839
3 Kildare Street Newry Co Down BT34 1DQ	Record Only	1820 – 1839
11-13 Margaret Street Newry Co Down BT34 1DF	Record Only	1820 – 1839
6 Upper Water Street (formerly 6 Abbey Way) Newry Co Down BT34 1DJ	Record Only	1820 – 1839
Boundary Post near 1 Windsor Court Rathfriland Road Newry Co Down BT34 1JF	B2	1860 – 1879
Boundary Marker outside 69 Downshire Road Newry Co Down	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/

Spotted an error? This dataset is updated continuously. Email contact@danielkirkpatrick.co.uk with corrections, missing records, or suggestions for improvement.

ST. PATRICK’S Heritage Profile