Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Aghacloghan — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Aghacloghan holds two circular earthworks on a Monaghan drumlin, with the southerly fort measuring nearly forty-six metres across. Its grassy bank still rises higher at the southeast entrance, marking the exact gap where people once entered. The name suggests local belief in fairy occupation, yet the visible structure is a human rath built for residence or defence. Both facts can be true: people lived there, departed, and transformed the empty house into a fairy one.

Situated on the spine of a NW-SE drumlin ridge towards the SE end. Two circular enclosures are depicted at Aghacloghan on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793) and this is the more southerly monument with rath (MO028-056----) is c. 140m to the NW. It is a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 46m NE-SW; 42m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.3-0.4m; ext. H 0.7m at NW to 1.8m at SE) that is reduced to a low scarp N-E. There is an outer fosse (at NW: Wth of top 6m) S-W-NNE, and an outer bank (at NW: Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.3m) SW-N. There is an entrance (Wth of base 2.2m) at SE, and the interior is bisected by a NE-SW field bank (max. ext. diam. 57m NW-SE). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 6 December 2017

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