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English: The former Fairy Knowe Quarry. This was formerly a sandstone quarry.
The 1:10560 OS map from 1864 shows a Fairy Knowe at this location ("knowe" is equivalent to "knoll"), with a summit height of 574 feet, and surmounted by a trig point, but there was, as yet, no quarry here. The equivalent maps from 1899 to 1932 show the quarry eating away at the southern face of the Knowe (which still had a trig point on its summit) and spreading to the south. I.M.M.MacPhail's booklet "Off the Main Road" (1976) discusses the quarry at the site of the former Fairy Knowe; the author notes that "the hillside has been altered considerably by extensive quarrying and the old name, Fairy Knowe, seems now a misnomer. (It was also in more recent times known as Mount Mallow)". The colour of the underlying soil is best seen in the mound at the right-hand side of the photo. That mound is not the Knowe; the latter was much larger, and all that presently remains of it is a curving ridge, with some trees on top, at the northern edge of the disused quarry (that ridge can be seen in this photo; it crosses the image from left to right, and separates the green edge of the quarry from the brown hillside behind it). To the left, the hill in the background is Carman Hill, and the "bump" visible to the right of its summit is the location of some boulders that lie within an ancient hill-fort: 697526. |
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