What is recorded here
Oldstone Hill may have worn a castle during the eighteenth or nineteenth century, though no ruin remains visible to test that claim. The name itself admits the doubt, casting a shadow over a hill that may never have held a single stone tower. People walked past it in County Antrim, perhaps seeing only grass and sky where a fortress should have stood.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CASTLE?: OLDSTONE HILL (unlocated). Recorded period: C18TH/C19TH. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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