What is recorded here
Located on a N-facing slope in a col with higher ground to the N and S. A house of five bays and three storeys, now abandoned. It was built in 1771 for Richard Dockrel, according to a date stone. The stones of the unlocated Hackettstown castle (WA008-033----), c. 5km to the SE, are thought to have been used in building it (Martin 1874-5, 248), but no diagnostic dresses stones are visible.
Martin, Dr. (1874-5) Proceedings and papers, JRSAI 13, 247-50, 437, 479, 481.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 01 November 2010
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