County: Antrim Site name: TOBERDOWNEY, Ballynure
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 45:16 Licence number: —
Author: Alan Reilly, NAC
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 731593m, N 893581m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.772945, -5.954682
Monitoring of a housing development took place here. The site is next to a medieval (or perhaps earlier—there is a 19th-century reference to a souterrain and to cashel-style walls being present) church and graveyard. There are references to a church at Ballynure from the early 14th century. The site was later occupied by a mill dam.
Mechanical topsoil-stripping was monitored before development. No pre-19th-century features or finds were noted. However, the outline of the edge of the millpond was uncovered.
Unit 6, Farset Enterprise Park, 638 Springfield Road, Belfast.
