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MOUND (with poss. burials): THE DUMB FORT; DEAF KNOWE in Greenan

MOUND (with poss. burials): THE DUMB FORT; DEAF KNOWE

What is recorded here

Deaf Knowe still stands in Greenan, County Down, a buried fort hiding possible bones beneath soil. The names suggest a place where speech failed or stopped, leaving humans to listen for shape instead of meaning.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as MOUND (with poss. burials): THE DUMB FORT; DEAF KNOWE. Recorded period: UNCERTAIN. Recorded protection: Scheduled. 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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