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The end of the Gransha Road at the crossroads. Straight ahead is the Knockbracken Road and the A23 Ballygowan/Moneyreagh Road runs left to right.
It was in this rather isolated and obscure location that the oldest flush bracket bench mark in Ireland was located. OSNI produced an initial run of flush brackets numbered 1001-1025 that were used c1932-1936; of these, 21 were sited in the greater Belfast area and 4 in Derry/Londonderry. The oldest bracket, numbered 1001, was sited at this location - J3984868764 to be precise - but it has unfortunately been destroyed (it was on a building which used to stand where the wooden fence is now). The oldest extant bracket, 1002, can be seen in J3979 : Flush Bracket, Holywood. OSNI later used flush brackets in much greater numbers for the retriangulation and levelling of Northern Ireland in the 1950s and early 1960s.