BAWN: ROWANTREES HILL in Mulladry

Rowantrees Hill stands in Mulladry as a post-medieval bawn, its earthworks shaping the county landscape since the seventeenth century. The name suggests rowan trees once ringed the enclosure, their red berries flashing against grey stone while people lived inside the rampart. Whether traders, farmers or fugitives built the wall, they chose a hill visible enough to warn and solid enough to trust. That much remains written in the soil, waiting for a walker to read it without explanation.