What is recorded here
Mutton Bay, County Antrim. A promontory fort on a narrow neck of rock, sea on three sides. The land itself became the defensible shape: a thin tongue jutting into the bay, narrow enough that a small group could watch every approach. The cliff and water did the work a wall would have done. People may have stood at that edge in rain or storm, marking territory, keeping watch, or simply surviving the Atlantic edge of the world.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as Promontory fort. 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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