Like all mountains, the Blackstairs by virtue of it’s height and exposure, is not the most hospitable place to live on top of. Because of this, activity on it over the past thousands of years has been left relatively well preserved. Archaeologists like Seimi O’Mhurcu, who did his Phd on the Blackstairs, have been able to piece together the stories from the artifacts on the mountain and so get an insight into what life was like back then
