Two military barracks were built in the locality, one in the townland of Cormullagh, within a short distance of Dungannon, Co Tyrone. From the lintel stone over the main door of this barracks we learn from a carved inscription in bold relief the year the building was erected, 1707, together with the letters R. T. R, which might mean Royal Tyrone Regiment. Why establishments of this kind should have been erected within a few miles of Dungannon around 1700 can only be surmised.

This was the overgrown ruin when we first viewed the site in October 2001

Dr Frank Shields in front of Altmore Barracks in 1983