The Mound is reached by a narrow path between the houses numbered 45 and 47 on Shandon Park in the Belfast suburb of Knock, and overlooking Shandon Park golf course.
This tall mound, planted with conifers, looks like a Norman motte without a bailey. It is likely to be one of the numerous earthworks erected by the Anglo-Normans between 1177 and the mid 13th century to keep a tight hold on the lands they conquered in Co. Down. As the name Shandon is derived from the Irish words 'old fort', it is possible that the mound was built on the site of an earlier Irish fortification.
Did you know that the mound was probably built for one of John De Courcy's knights?
Rosemary Williamson talks about The Mound at Shandon.