 However, in 2006 a long road was cut down to within few hundred feet above the bay as part of a housing development.Visitors can now get to the ruins by climbing down a steep stream bed just a few hundred feet long.There is almost no historical record of the ruin, and it may be one of the many relatively impoverished sugar plantations that fell into financial distress after the United Kingdom passed the Sugar Duties Act 1846, and was most likely abandoned after the insurrection of 1853.