A place to stop and think about the hidden history of Culbin
You’ll find an attractive circle of benches on the corner of junction number 38 with a few surprises in store. A welcome stopping-point midway between The Gut and Wellhill or Cloddymoss, this is a good place to sit, rest and contemplate how people adapt to the landscape around them.
Culbin is a wild and unpredictable area where the coastline has changed many times (see Culbin’s natural timeline). The shell middens of early hunter-gatherers can still be seen here and there inland, leftovers from a feast enjoyed thousands of years ago and evidence of a shifting coastline.
Far more recently, there were fields and crofts beneath your feet. These primitive homes needed roofs, so tough wild marram grass and coastal turf was uprooted to provide thatch and fuel, but it destabilised the dunes.
In 1694, the last of a series of severe storms finally drove out the Kinnaird family who owned Culbin, and their last tenants, burying their homes and livelihoods forever.
What must it have been like to leave all your possessions in your home and run from a sandstorm?
In Culbin you can allow your mind to wander, along with your feet.
Read more about the sandstorms, myths and legends of Culbin.
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