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Kinbane Ice-house is a nineteenth-century ice-house associated with the salmon fishery at Kinbane in County Antrim. Built into the volcanic bedrock of the Antrim plateau, the structure exploited the underlying Palaeogene mafic lavas and tuffs that characterise this coastal landscape. Ice-houses of this period were essential to the commercial salmon trade, allowing fresh catch to be preserved in ice throughout the year for transport to distant markets.
The ice-house sits within the Moyle district on ground shaped by ancient volcanic activity. The northern Irish coast around Kinbane was a centre of significant salmon fishing during the nineteenth century, and the ice-house represents the infrastructure required to make that fishery commercially viable. Its siting took advantage of both the geology and proximity to the river system that sustained the fishery.
The monument is protected as a heritage asset by the Historic Environment Division under reference 16062, recognising its importance as evidence of nineteenth-century commercial fishing practices and the technological means by which rural communities exploited local resources. The ice-house survives as a rare physical reminder of how natural ice storage once linked remote fishing stations to wider markets.
Ice-house (associated with kinbane salmon fishery) is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 16062. View the official record →
Kinbane Ice-house is a nineteenth-century ice-house associated with the salmon fishery at Kinbane in County Antrim. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 16062.
Ice-house (associated with kinbane salmon fishery) dates from the c19th period, and is classified as a ice house. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Ice-house (associated with kinbane salmon fishery) 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 16062.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Standing stone (5.7 km), Motte with castle ruins & souterrain (6.2 km), Tober-bile. standing stone (6.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Ice-house (associated with kinbane salmon fishery)'s history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Ice-house (associated with kinbane salmon fishery) stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Palaeogene, bedrock that formed in the Paleogene. The rock here is mafic lava and mafic tuff.