Sower

RCAHMS NMRS record no.HY20NE 5
Close to the shore on the north side of the Sower Road is a large unopened mound of earth and stones which the Name Book states locals called an old castle and appears on the 25” as a castle site. By 1928 it was known locally as the “Hillock of Hoose-ha” and a visit by the commission records “traces of a large indeterminate structure”. Nowadays thought to be a settlement mound, it is roughly rectangular – some 24m E/W by 19m – and about 2m high. No walling has been seen but stone is exposed in places around the periphery and cairn-like material shows in two “mutilations” at the centre.