Once upon a time there was a hamlet...

22 October 2010

Often when I walk on the Cavehill I think about how different it must have been a hundred years ago...

There are ruins of two small hamlets on the hill that were homes to the people who worked in the old limestone quarry... there are photos of the old quarry in this Gregor Story .

Isn't it strange how quickly nature reclaims what was once a community...

The quarry closed and people moved away to find other jobs...

and the hamlet became part of a field on a hilltop farm for cattle to graze in...  then the farm became part of the Cavehill Country Park so that we could walk and enjoy the countryside...

the lane where people walked grassed over...

and the walls are now mossy mounds... 

it must have been a very different place when they lived on the Cavehill with the noise of the quarry just below them and the small railway track taking the limestone to the docks...