A guide to Belfast and the counties of Down & Antrim . Six-mile Water, in the Grange of Muckamore, near thetown of Antrim. This souterrain has the singular peculiarityof being two-storied. It is easy of entrance, and well wortha visit. A very fine example of a souterrain inside a fort maybe inspected at Stranocum, in the grounds of W; Ford-Hutchinson, which was discovered in 1897, and is like theletter Y on plan. There is also an extensive one at Tyrella,in the county of Down, and within easy distance of Dundrumor Downpatrick. Other examples more or less difficult can be found in thecounty of
A guide to Belfast and the counties of Down & Antrim . Six-mile Water, in the Grange of Muckamore, near thetown of Antrim. This souterrain has the singular peculiarityof being two-storied. It is easy of entrance, and well wortha visit. A very fine example of a souterrain inside a fort maybe inspected at Stranocum, in the grounds of W; Ford-Hutchinson, which was discovered in 1897, and is like theletter Y on plan. There is also an extensive one at Tyrella,in the county of Down, and within easy distance of Dundrumor Downpatrick. Other examples more or less difficult can be found in thecounty of Antrim at Holywell, Dunagore, Broughshane, Glen-wherry, Toomebridge, Ballycastle, and in the county of Downat Craigavad, Downpatrick, Ardtole near Ardglass, etc., butmany of them have been closed up, as they were dangerousto cattle, and a visitor may be disappointed at the end ofhis journey. Stone implements and bones have been foundin some of them, also pottery, but they have not yet beensystematically investigated. ei-Vr 4 : v_ «:j. :*i5*:^tecr7i. ft>oiT7- EA^BBClpe^-bY- ryW- GROUND ILAN OF THE ARDTOLE SOUTERRAIN. 252 Guide to Belfast. A few natural caves are to be found in the district aroundBelfast, which bear clear evidence of having been eitherartificially made or used by man. The principal ones arethose on the Cave Hill, overlooking the city, and at theKnockagh, above Carrickfergus ; whilst they are to be foundhere and there all round the coast from Belfast Lough toPortrush. W. J. F.
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