What is recorded here

Killone Hill still holds the ghost of an O'Moore castle, though no wall stands proud enough to mark the border between memory and myth. The Down Survey captured the shape before decay finished its work, proving the stone existed even when human hands forgot where it lay. You can walk the summit now and feel the danger of that absence: a castle large enough to survey, yet small enough to vanish from every living tongue.

Unlocated building within townland that is indicated on the Down Survey (1654-7) map of the area. On the summit of Killone Hill there are traces of what was once a building, said to be a castle of the O'Moores (Dooley n.d., 21). The summit of Killone hill is on OS sheet 14 and not on sheet 009. This site is the same as SMR number LA009-032----. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

The castle on Killone Hill was likely held by the O'Moores, an Irish Gaelic family, during the 17th century. It is remembered as a historical indicator of local power structures and land ownership in the region prior to the Cromwellian conquest.

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