
What is recorded here
Mud, timber and river pressure built Blackwater Fort before modern measurement arrived. It stands as a sixteenth-century fortification and bridge in Blackwatertown or Lisbofin, where water traffic and defence touched at once. The fort likely guarded a crossing rather than a empty field, forcing people to meet the river on human terms.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as C16TH FORTIFICATION & BRIDGE: BLACKWATER FORT. Recorded period: POST-MED; C16TH. 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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