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Ballykinler is a First World War trench system located in County Down, Northern Ireland. The entrenchment forms part of the defensive infrastructure constructed during the Great War and represents the material remains of early twentieth-century military engineering. The site preserves evidence of the strategic fortifications that characterized wartime preparations in Ireland during 1914-1918. As a designated monument within the Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record, it constitutes an important archaeological record of the conflict's physical legacy on the Irish landscape.
Ballykinler. trench system (ww1)- dhp 307 is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 16490. View the official record →
Ballykinler is a First World War trench system located in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 16490.
Ballykinler. trench system (ww1)- dhp 307 is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Ni. The official designation reference is 16490.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including St. patrick's well, parkaneety graveyard, killyglinne. church, graveyard & holy well (1.4 km), Ballykinler. ww1 trench system, grenade bunker(ww2)-dhp 326 (1.9 km), Slidderyford dolmen. portal tomb (3.4 km).
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