What is recorded here
Castle Hill in Ballybogy is an unlocated castle site, leaving behind a hollow question rather than a visible wall. The uncertainty suits the hill, which may have worn a fortress once and now wears only grass and memory. To stand there is to touch the edge of knowing, where human ambition disappeared so completely it became indistinguishable from the earth itself.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CASTLE: CASTLE HILL (O.S. memoir site, unlocated). Recorded period: UNCERTAIN. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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